From: Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
To: ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, andrii@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net
Cc: martin.lau@linux.dev, eddyz87@gmail.com, song@kernel.org,
yonghong.song@linux.dev, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com,
jolsa@kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v1] docs: bpf: map_array: specify BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY value size limit
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:35:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251115063531.2302903-1-alex.t.tran@gmail.com> (raw)
Specify value size limit for BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY which
is PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE (32 kb). In percpu allocator (mm: percpu),
any request with a size greater than PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE is rejected.
Signed-off-by: Alex Tran <alex.t.tran@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/bpf/map_array.rst | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/map_array.rst b/Documentation/bpf/map_array.rst
index f2f51a53e8ae..fa56ff75190c 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/map_array.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/map_array.rst
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ of constant size. The size of the array is defined in ``max_entries`` at
creation time. All array elements are pre-allocated and zero initialized when
created. ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY`` uses a different memory region for each
CPU whereas ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY`` uses the same memory region. The value
-stored can be of any size, however, all array elements are aligned to 8
-bytes.
+stored can be of any size for ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY`` and not more than
+``PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE`` (32 kB) for ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY``. All
+array elements are aligned to 8 bytes.
Since kernel 5.5, memory mapping may be enabled for ``BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY`` by
setting the flag ``BPF_F_MMAPABLE``. The map definition is page-aligned and
--
2.51.0
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