3 files changed, 30 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore b/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore
index f81e549ddfdb..4db74758c674 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 libbpf_version.h
 FEATURE-DUMP.libbpf
+test_libbpf
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
index 056f38310722..607aae40f4ed 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst
@@ -132,6 +132,20 @@ For example, if current state of ``libbpf.map`` is:
 Format of version script and ways to handle ABI changes, including
 incompatible ones, described in details in [1].
 
+Stand-alone build
+=================
+
+Under https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf there is a (semi-)automated
+mirror of the mainline's version of libbpf for a stand-alone build.
+
+However, all changes to libbpf's code base must be upstreamed through
+the mainline kernel tree.
+
+License
+=======
+
+libbpf is dual-licensed under LGPL 2.1 and BSD 2-Clause.
+
 Links
 =====
 
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
index 3caaa3428774..88cbd110ae58 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
@@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ static inline int sys_bpf(enum bpf_cmd cmd, union bpf_attr *attr,
 	return syscall(__NR_bpf, cmd, attr, size);
 }
 
+static inline int sys_bpf_prog_load(union bpf_attr *attr, unsigned int size)
+{
+	int fd;
+
+	do {
+		fd = sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, attr, size);
+	} while (fd < 0 && errno == EAGAIN);
+
+	return fd;
+}
+
 int bpf_create_map_xattr(const struct bpf_create_map_attr *create_attr)
 {
 	__u32 name_len = create_attr->name ? strlen(create_attr->name) : 0;
@@ -232,7 +243,7 @@ int bpf_load_program_xattr(const struct bpf_load_program_attr *load_attr,
 	memcpy(attr.prog_name, load_attr->name,
 	       min(name_len, BPF_OBJ_NAME_LEN - 1));
 
-	fd = sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
+	fd = sys_bpf_prog_load(&attr, sizeof(attr));
 	if (fd >= 0)
 		return fd;
 
@@ -269,7 +280,7 @@ int bpf_load_program_xattr(const struct bpf_load_program_attr *load_attr,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		fd = sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
+		fd = sys_bpf_prog_load(&attr, sizeof(attr));
 
 		if (fd >= 0)
 			goto done;
@@ -283,7 +294,7 @@ int bpf_load_program_xattr(const struct bpf_load_program_attr *load_attr,
 	attr.log_size = log_buf_sz;
 	attr.log_level = 1;
 	log_buf[0] = 0;
-	fd = sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
+	fd = sys_bpf_prog_load(&attr, sizeof(attr));
 done:
 	free(finfo);
 	free(linfo);
@@ -328,7 +339,7 @@ int bpf_verify_program(enum bpf_prog_type type, const struct bpf_insn *insns,
 	attr.kern_version = kern_version;
 	attr.prog_flags = prog_flags;
 
-	return sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
+	return sys_bpf_prog_load(&attr, sizeof(attr));
 }
 
 int bpf_map_update_elem(int fd, const void *key, const void *value,