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<title>libbpf: Add "map_extra" as a per-map-type extra flag</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T20:22:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joanne Koong</name>
<email>joannekoong@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-27T23:45:01+00:00</published>
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This patch adds the libbpf infrastructure for supporting a
per-map-type "map_extra" field, whose definition will be
idiosyncratic depending on map type.

For example, for the bloom filter map, the lower 4 bits of
map_extra is used to denote the number of hash functions.

Please note that until libbpf 1.0 is here, the
"bpf_create_map_params" struct is used as a temporary
means for propagating the map_extra field to the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannekoong@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211027234504.30744-3-joannekoong@fb.com
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This patch adds the libbpf infrastructure for supporting a
per-map-type "map_extra" field, whose definition will be
idiosyncratic depending on map type.

For example, for the bloom filter map, the lower 4 bits of
map_extra is used to denote the number of hash functions.

Please note that until libbpf 1.0 is here, the
"bpf_create_map_params" struct is used as a temporary
means for propagating the map_extra field to the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannekoong@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211027234504.30744-3-joannekoong@fb.com
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add ability to fetch bpf_program's underlying instructions</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T01:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-25T22:45:29+00:00</published>
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Add APIs providing read-only access to bpf_program BPF instructions ([0]).
This is useful for diagnostics purposes, but it also allows a cleaner
support for cloning BPF programs after libbpf did all the FD resolution
and CO-RE relocations, subprog instructions appending, etc. Currently,
cloning BPF program is possible only through hijacking a half-broken
bpf_program__set_prep() API, which doesn't really work well for anything
but most primitive programs. For instance, set_prep() API doesn't allow
adjusting BPF program load parameters which are necessary for loading
fentry/fexit BPF programs (the case where BPF program cloning is
a necessity if doing some sort of mass-attachment functionality).

Given bpf_program__set_prep() API is set to be deprecated, having
a cleaner alternative is a must. libbpf internally already keeps track
of linear array of struct bpf_insn, so it's not hard to expose it. The
only gotcha is that libbpf previously freed instructions array during
bpf_object load time, which would make this API much less useful overall,
because in between bpf_object__open() and bpf_object__load() a lot of
changes to instructions are done by libbpf.

So this patch makes libbpf hold onto prog-&gt;insns array even after BPF
program loading. I think this is a small price for added functionality
and improved introspection of BPF program code.

See retsnoop PR ([1]) for how it can be used in practice and code
savings compared to relying on bpf_program__set_prep().

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/298
  [1] https://github.com/anakryiko/retsnoop/pull/1

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211025224531.1088894-3-andrii@kernel.org
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Add APIs providing read-only access to bpf_program BPF instructions ([0]).
This is useful for diagnostics purposes, but it also allows a cleaner
support for cloning BPF programs after libbpf did all the FD resolution
and CO-RE relocations, subprog instructions appending, etc. Currently,
cloning BPF program is possible only through hijacking a half-broken
bpf_program__set_prep() API, which doesn't really work well for anything
but most primitive programs. For instance, set_prep() API doesn't allow
adjusting BPF program load parameters which are necessary for loading
fentry/fexit BPF programs (the case where BPF program cloning is
a necessity if doing some sort of mass-attachment functionality).

Given bpf_program__set_prep() API is set to be deprecated, having
a cleaner alternative is a must. libbpf internally already keeps track
of linear array of struct bpf_insn, so it's not hard to expose it. The
only gotcha is that libbpf previously freed instructions array during
bpf_object load time, which would make this API much less useful overall,
because in between bpf_object__open() and bpf_object__load() a lot of
changes to instructions are done by libbpf.

So this patch makes libbpf hold onto prog-&gt;insns array even after BPF
program loading. I think this is a small price for added functionality
and improved introspection of BPF program code.

See retsnoop PR ([1]) for how it can be used in practice and code
savings compared to relying on bpf_program__set_prep().

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/298
  [1] https://github.com/anakryiko/retsnoop/pull/1

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211025224531.1088894-3-andrii@kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add btf__type_cnt() and btf__raw_data() APIs</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T23:09:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hengqi Chen</name>
<email>hengqi.chen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-22T13:06:19+00:00</published>
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Add btf__type_cnt() and btf__raw_data() APIs and deprecate
btf__get_nr_type() and btf__get_raw_data() since the old APIs
don't follow the libbpf naming convention for getters which
omit 'get' in the name (see [0]). btf__raw_data() is just an
alias to the existing btf__get_raw_data(). btf__type_cnt()
now returns the number of all types of the BTF object
including 'void'.

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/279

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211022130623.1548429-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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Add btf__type_cnt() and btf__raw_data() APIs and deprecate
btf__get_nr_type() and btf__get_raw_data() since the old APIs
don't follow the libbpf naming convention for getters which
omit 'get' in the name (see [0]). btf__raw_data() is just an
alias to the existing btf__get_raw_data(). btf__type_cnt()
now returns the number of all types of the BTF object
including 'void'.

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/279

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211022130623.1548429-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Rename BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG</title>
<updated>2021-10-19T01:35:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-12T16:48:38+00:00</published>
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Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.

After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).

This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199

Fixes: b5ea834dde6b ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd10363e ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec003 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
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Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.

After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).

This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199

Fixes: b5ea834dde6b ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd10363e ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec003 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Deprecate bpf_{map,program}__{prev,next} APIs since v0.7</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T19:34:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hengqi Chen</name>
<email>hengqi.chen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-03T16:58:43+00:00</published>
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Deprecate bpf_{map,program}__{prev,next} APIs. Replace them with
a new set of APIs named bpf_object__{prev,next}_{program,map} which
follow the libbpf API naming convention ([0]). No functionality changes.

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/296

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211003165844.4054931-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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Deprecate bpf_{map,program}__{prev,next} APIs. Replace them with
a new set of APIs named bpf_object__{prev,next}_{program,map} which
follow the libbpf API naming convention ([0]). No functionality changes.

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/296

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211003165844.4054931-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add API that copies all BTF types from one BTF object to another</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T13:35:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-06T05:11:05+00:00</published>
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Add a bulk copying api, btf__add_btf(), that speeds up and simplifies
appending entire contents of one BTF object to another one, taking care
of copying BTF type data, adjusting resulting BTF type IDs according to
their new locations in the destination BTF object, as well as copying
and deduplicating all the referenced strings and updating all the string
offsets in new BTF types as appropriate.

This API is intended to be used from tools that are generating and
otherwise manipulating BTFs generically, such as pahole. In pahole's
case, this API is useful for speeding up parallelized BTF encoding, as
it allows pahole to offload all the intricacies of BTF type copying to
libbpf and handle the parallelization aspects of the process.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211006051107.17921-2-andrii@kernel.org
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Add a bulk copying api, btf__add_btf(), that speeds up and simplifies
appending entire contents of one BTF object to another one, taking care
of copying BTF type data, adjusting resulting BTF type IDs according to
their new locations in the destination BTF object, as well as copying
and deduplicating all the referenced strings and updating all the string
offsets in new BTF types as appropriate.

This API is intended to be used from tools that are generating and
otherwise manipulating BTFs generically, such as pahole. In pahole's
case, this API is useful for speeding up parallelized BTF encoding, as
it allows pahole to offload all the intricacies of BTF type copying to
libbpf and handle the parallelization aspects of the process.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211006051107.17921-2-andrii@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T01:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yonghong Song</name>
<email>yhs@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T22:30:25+00:00</published>
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Add BTF_KIND_TAG support for parsing and dedup.
Also added sanitization for BTF_KIND_TAG. If BTF_KIND_TAG is not
supported in the kernel, sanitize it to INTs.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223025.246687-1-yhs@fb.com
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Add BTF_KIND_TAG support for parsing and dedup.
Also added sanitization for BTF_KIND_TAG. If BTF_KIND_TAG is not
supported in the kernel, sanitize it to INTs.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yhs@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223025.246687-1-yhs@fb.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Make libbpf_version.h non-auto-generated</title>
<updated>2021-09-13T22:36:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-13T22:23:09+00:00</published>
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Turn previously auto-generated libbpf_version.h header into a normal
header file. This prevents various tricky Makefile integration issues,
simplifies the overall build process, but also allows to further extend
it with some more versioning-related APIs in the future.

To prevent accidental out-of-sync versions as defined by libbpf.map and
libbpf_version.h, Makefile checks their consistency at build time.

Simultaneously with this change bump libbpf.map to v0.6.

Also undo adding libbpf's output directory into include path for
kernel/bpf/preload, bpftool, and resolve_btfids, which is not necessary
because libbpf_version.h is just a normal header like any other.

Fixes: 0b46b7550560 ("libbpf: Add LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE macro for scheduling API deprecations")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210913222309.3220849-1-andrii@kernel.org
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Turn previously auto-generated libbpf_version.h header into a normal
header file. This prevents various tricky Makefile integration issues,
simplifies the overall build process, but also allows to further extend
it with some more versioning-related APIs in the future.

To prevent accidental out-of-sync versions as defined by libbpf.map and
libbpf_version.h, Makefile checks their consistency at build time.

Simultaneously with this change bump libbpf.map to v0.6.

Also undo adding libbpf's output directory into include path for
kernel/bpf/preload, bpftool, and resolve_btfids, which is not necessary
because libbpf_version.h is just a normal header like any other.

Fixes: 0b46b7550560 ("libbpf: Add LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE macro for scheduling API deprecations")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210913222309.3220849-1-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add bpf_cookie to perf_event, kprobe, uprobe, and tp attach APIs</title>
<updated>2021-08-16T22:45:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-15T07:06:04+00:00</published>
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Wire through bpf_cookie for all attach APIs that use perf_event_open under the
hood:
  - for kprobes, extend existing bpf_kprobe_opts with bpf_cookie field;
  - for perf_event, uprobe, and tracepoint APIs, add their _opts variants and
    pass bpf_cookie through opts.

For kernel that don't support BPF_LINK_CREATE for perf_events, and thus
bpf_cookie is not supported either, return error and log warning for user.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-12-andrii@kernel.org
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Wire through bpf_cookie for all attach APIs that use perf_event_open under the
hood:
  - for kprobes, extend existing bpf_kprobe_opts with bpf_cookie field;
  - for perf_event, uprobe, and tracepoint APIs, add their _opts variants and
    pass bpf_cookie through opts.

For kernel that don't support BPF_LINK_CREATE for perf_events, and thus
bpf_cookie is not supported either, return error and log warning for user.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-12-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libbpf: Add btf__load_vmlinux_btf/btf__load_module_btf</title>
<updated>2021-07-30T19:21:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hengqi Chen</name>
<email>hengqi.chen@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2021-07-30T11:40:12+00:00</published>
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Add two new APIs: btf__load_vmlinux_btf and btf__load_module_btf.
btf__load_vmlinux_btf is just an alias to the existing API named
libbpf_find_kernel_btf, rename to be more precisely and consistent
with existing BTF APIs. btf__load_module_btf can be used to load
module BTF, add it for completeness. These two APIs are useful for
implementing tracing tools and introspection tools. This is part
of the effort towards libbpf 1.0 ([0]).

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/280

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210730114012.494408-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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Add two new APIs: btf__load_vmlinux_btf and btf__load_module_btf.
btf__load_vmlinux_btf is just an alias to the existing API named
libbpf_find_kernel_btf, rename to be more precisely and consistent
with existing BTF APIs. btf__load_module_btf can be used to load
module BTF, add it for completeness. These two APIs are useful for
implementing tracing tools and introspection tools. This is part
of the effort towards libbpf 1.0 ([0]).

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/280

Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen &lt;hengqi.chen@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210730114012.494408-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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