commit | a388fcb0f51dcca6f3f2abb67251ce28e38f0bee | [log] [tgz] |
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author | Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> | Mon Sep 28 19:05:30 2020 -0700 |
committer | Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> | Tue Sep 29 18:29:49 2020 -0700 |
tree | c36d58a9d992eefc4045da337afe4c899affed59 | |
parent | 2654268c7989299f3dd623b0715279554336687c [diff] |
libbpf: Add BTF writing APIs Add APIs for appending new BTF types at the end of BTF object. Each BTF kind has either one API of the form btf__add_<kind>(). For types that have variable amount of additional items (struct/union, enum, func_proto, datasec), additional API is provided to emit each such item. E.g., for emitting a struct, one would use the following sequence of API calls: btf__add_struct(...); btf__add_field(...); ... btf__add_field(...); Each btf__add_field() will ensure that the last BTF type is of STRUCT or UNION kind and will automatically increment that type's vlen field. All the strings are provided as C strings (const char *), not a string offset. This significantly improves usability of BTF writer APIs. All such strings will be automatically appended to string section or existing string will be re-used, if such string was already added previously. Each API attempts to do all the reasonable validations, like enforcing non-empty names for entities with required names, proper value bounds, various bit offset restrictions, etc. Type ID validation is minimal because it's possible to emit a type that refers to type that will be emitted later, so libbpf has no way to enforce such cases. User must be careful to properly emit all the necessary types and specify type IDs that will be valid in the finally generated BTF. Each of btf__add_<kind>() APIs return new type ID on success or negative value on error. APIs like btf__add_field() that emit additional items return zero on success and negative value on error. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929020533.711288-2-andriin@fb.com
This is a mirror of bpf-next Linux source tree's tools/lib/bpf
directory plus its supporting header files.
All the gory details of syncing can be found in scripts/sync-kernel.sh
script.
Some header files in this repo (include/linux/*.h
) are reduced versions of their counterpart files at bpf-next's tools/include/linux/*.h
to make compilation successful.
All general BPF questions, including kernel functionality, libbpf APIs and their application, should be sent to bpf@vger.kernel.org mailing list. You can subscribe to it here and search its archive here. Please search the archive before asking new questions. It very well might be that this was already addressed or answered before.
bpf@vger.kernel.org is monitored by many more people and they will happily try to help you with whatever issue you have. This repository's PRs and issues should be opened only for dealing with issues pertaining to specific way this libbpf mirror repo is set up and organized.
libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link against and must be installed on the system for applications to work. pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be overridden with PKG_CONFIG
.
If using pkg-config
at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by setting NO_PKG_CONFIG=1
when calling make.
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:
$ cd src
$ make
To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:
$ cd src $ mkdir build root $ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:
$ cd src $ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install
Distributions packaging libbpf from this mirror:
Benefits of packaging from the mirror over packaging from kernel sources:
Package dependencies of libbpf, package names may vary across distros:
Libbpf supports building BPF CO-RE-enabled applications, which, in contrast to BCC, do not require Clang/LLVM runtime being deployed to target servers and doesn't rely on kernel-devel headers being available.
It does rely on kernel to be built with BTF type information, though. Some major Linux distributions come with kernel BTF already built in:
If your kernel doesn‘t come with BTF built-in, you’ll need to build custom kernel. You'll need:
pahole
1.16+ tool (part of dwarves
package), which performs DWARF to BTF conversion;CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
option;/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
file:$ ls -la /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux -r--r--r--. 1 root root 3541561 Jun 2 18:16 /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
To develop and build BPF programs, you'll need Clang/LLVM 10+. The following distributions have Clang/LLVM 10+ packaged by default:
Otherwise, please make sure to update it on your system.
The following resources are useful to understand what BPF CO-RE is and how to use it:
This work is dual-licensed under BSD 2-clause license and GNU LGPL v2.1 license. You can choose between one of them if you use this work.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR LGPL-2.1