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<title>bpftool: Install libbpf headers for the bootstrap version, too</title>
<updated>2021-11-05T15:19:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
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<published>2021-11-05T01:58:13+00:00</published>
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We recently changed bpftool's Makefile to make it install libbpf's
headers locally instead of pulling them from the source directory of the
library. Although bpftool needs two versions of libbpf, a "regular" one
and a "bootstrap" version, we would only install headers for the regular
libbpf build. Given that this build always occurs before the bootstrap
build when building bpftool, this is enough to ensure that the bootstrap
bpftool will have access to the headers exported through the regular
libbpf build.

However, this did not account for the case when we only want the
bootstrap version of bpftool, through the "bootstrap" target. For
example, perf needs the bootstrap version only, to generate BPF
skeletons. In that case, when are the headers installed? For some time,
the issue has been masked, because we had a step (the installation of
headers internal to libbpf) which would depend on the regular build of
libbpf and hence trigger the export of the headers, just for the sake of
creating a directory. But this changed with commit 8b6c46241c77
("bpftool: Remove Makefile dep. on $(LIBBPF) for
$(LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS)"), where we cleaned up that stage and removed
the dependency on the regular libbpf build. As a result, when we only
want the bootstrap bpftool version, the regular libbpf is no longer
built. The bootstrap libbpf version is built, but headers are not
exported, and the bootstrap bpftool build fails because of the missing
headers.

To fix this, we also install the library headers for the bootstrap
version of libbpf, to use them for the bootstrap bpftool and for
generating the skeletons.

Fixes: f012ade10b34 ("bpftool: Install libbpf headers instead of including the dir")
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211105015813.6171-1-quentin@isovalent.com
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<pre>
We recently changed bpftool's Makefile to make it install libbpf's
headers locally instead of pulling them from the source directory of the
library. Although bpftool needs two versions of libbpf, a "regular" one
and a "bootstrap" version, we would only install headers for the regular
libbpf build. Given that this build always occurs before the bootstrap
build when building bpftool, this is enough to ensure that the bootstrap
bpftool will have access to the headers exported through the regular
libbpf build.

However, this did not account for the case when we only want the
bootstrap version of bpftool, through the "bootstrap" target. For
example, perf needs the bootstrap version only, to generate BPF
skeletons. In that case, when are the headers installed? For some time,
the issue has been masked, because we had a step (the installation of
headers internal to libbpf) which would depend on the regular build of
libbpf and hence trigger the export of the headers, just for the sake of
creating a directory. But this changed with commit 8b6c46241c77
("bpftool: Remove Makefile dep. on $(LIBBPF) for
$(LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS)"), where we cleaned up that stage and removed
the dependency on the regular libbpf build. As a result, when we only
want the bootstrap bpftool version, the regular libbpf is no longer
built. The bootstrap libbpf version is built, but headers are not
exported, and the bootstrap bpftool build fails because of the missing
headers.

To fix this, we also install the library headers for the bootstrap
version of libbpf, to use them for the bootstrap bpftool and for
generating the skeletons.

Fixes: f012ade10b34 ("bpftool: Install libbpf headers instead of including the dir")
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211105015813.6171-1-quentin@isovalent.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Switch to libbpf's hashmap for PIDs/names references</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T00:31:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-23T20:51:54+00:00</published>
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In order to show PIDs and names for processes holding references to BPF
programs, maps, links, or BTF objects, bpftool creates hash maps to
store all relevant information. This commit is part of a set that
transitions from the kernel's hash map implementation to the one coming
with libbpf.

The motivation is to make bpftool less dependent of kernel headers, to
ease the path to a potential out-of-tree mirror, like libbpf has.

This is the third and final step of the transition, in which we convert
the hash maps used for storing the information about the processes
holding references to BPF objects (programs, maps, links, BTF), and at
last we drop the inclusion of tools/include/linux/hashtable.h.

Note: Checkpatch complains about the use of __weak declarations, and the
missing empty lines after the bunch of empty function declarations when
compiling without the BPF skeletons (none of these were introduced in
this patch). We want to keep things as they are, and the reports should
be safe to ignore.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-6-quentin@isovalent.com
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In order to show PIDs and names for processes holding references to BPF
programs, maps, links, or BTF objects, bpftool creates hash maps to
store all relevant information. This commit is part of a set that
transitions from the kernel's hash map implementation to the one coming
with libbpf.

The motivation is to make bpftool less dependent of kernel headers, to
ease the path to a potential out-of-tree mirror, like libbpf has.

This is the third and final step of the transition, in which we convert
the hash maps used for storing the information about the processes
holding references to BPF objects (programs, maps, links, BTF), and at
last we drop the inclusion of tools/include/linux/hashtable.h.

Note: Checkpatch complains about the use of __weak declarations, and the
missing empty lines after the bunch of empty function declarations when
compiling without the BPF skeletons (none of these were introduced in
this patch). We want to keep things as they are, and the reports should
be safe to ignore.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-6-quentin@isovalent.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Switch to libbpf's hashmap for programs/maps in BTF listing</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T00:31:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-23T20:51:53+00:00</published>
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In order to show BPF programs and maps using BTF objects when the latter
are being listed, bpftool creates hash maps to store all relevant items.
This commit is part of a set that transitions from the kernel's hash map
implementation to the one coming with libbpf.

The motivation is to make bpftool less dependent of kernel headers, to
ease the path to a potential out-of-tree mirror, like libbpf has.

This commit focuses on the two hash maps used by bpftool when listing
BTF objects to store references to programs and maps, and convert them
to the libbpf's implementation.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-5-quentin@isovalent.com
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<pre>
In order to show BPF programs and maps using BTF objects when the latter
are being listed, bpftool creates hash maps to store all relevant items.
This commit is part of a set that transitions from the kernel's hash map
implementation to the one coming with libbpf.

The motivation is to make bpftool less dependent of kernel headers, to
ease the path to a potential out-of-tree mirror, like libbpf has.

This commit focuses on the two hash maps used by bpftool when listing
BTF objects to store references to programs and maps, and convert them
to the libbpf's implementation.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-5-quentin@isovalent.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Switch to libbpf's hashmap for pinned paths of BPF objects</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T00:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-23T20:51:52+00:00</published>
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In order to show pinned paths for BPF programs, maps, or links when
listing them with the "-f" option, bpftool creates hash maps to store
all relevant paths under the bpffs. So far, it would rely on the
kernel implementation (from tools/include/linux/hashtable.h).

We can make bpftool rely on libbpf's implementation instead. The
motivation is to make bpftool less dependent of kernel headers, to ease
the path to a potential out-of-tree mirror, like libbpf has.

This commit is the first step of the conversion: the hash maps for
pinned paths for programs, maps, and links are converted to libbpf's
hashmap.{c,h}. Other hash maps used for the PIDs of process holding
references to BPF objects are left unchanged for now. On the build side,
this requires adding a dependency to a second header internal to libbpf,
and making it a dependency for the bootstrap bpftool version as well.
The rest of the changes are a rather straightforward conversion.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-4-quentin@isovalent.com
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In order to show pinned paths for BPF programs, maps, or links when
listing them with the "-f" option, bpftool creates hash maps to store
all relevant paths under the bpffs. So far, it would rely on the
kernel implementation (from tools/include/linux/hashtable.h).

We can make bpftool rely on libbpf's implementation instead. The
motivation is to make bpftool less dependent of kernel headers, to ease
the path to a potential out-of-tree mirror, like libbpf has.

This commit is the first step of the conversion: the hash maps for
pinned paths for programs, maps, and links are converted to libbpf's
hashmap.{c,h}. Other hash maps used for the PIDs of process holding
references to BPF objects are left unchanged for now. On the build side,
this requires adding a dependency to a second header internal to libbpf,
and making it a dependency for the bootstrap bpftool version as well.
The rest of the changes are a rather straightforward conversion.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-4-quentin@isovalent.com
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Do not expose and init hash maps for pinned path in main.c</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T00:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-23T20:51:51+00:00</published>
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BPF programs, maps, and links, can all be listed with their pinned paths
by bpftool, when the "-f" option is provided. To do so, bpftool builds
hash maps containing all pinned paths for each kind of objects.

These three hash maps are always initialised in main.c, and exposed
through main.h. There appear to be no particular reason to do so: we can
just as well make them static to the files that need them (prog.c,
map.c, and link.c respectively), and initialise them only when we want
to show objects and the "-f" switch is provided.

This may prevent unnecessary memory allocations if the implementation of
the hash maps was to change in the future.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-3-quentin@isovalent.com
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BPF programs, maps, and links, can all be listed with their pinned paths
by bpftool, when the "-f" option is provided. To do so, bpftool builds
hash maps containing all pinned paths for each kind of objects.

These three hash maps are always initialised in main.c, and exposed
through main.h. There appear to be no particular reason to do so: we can
just as well make them static to the files that need them (prog.c,
map.c, and link.c respectively), and initialise them only when we want
to show objects and the "-f" switch is provided.

This may prevent unnecessary memory allocations if the implementation of
the hash maps was to change in the future.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-3-quentin@isovalent.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Remove Makefile dep. on $(LIBBPF) for $(LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS)</title>
<updated>2021-10-26T00:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-23T20:51:50+00:00</published>
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The dependency is only useful to make sure that the $(LIBBPF_HDRS_DIR)
directory is created before we try to install locally the required
libbpf internal header. Let's create this directory properly instead.

This is in preparation of making $(LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS) a dependency to
the bootstrap bpftool version, in which case we want no dependency on
$(LIBBPF).

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-2-quentin@isovalent.com
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The dependency is only useful to make sure that the $(LIBBPF_HDRS_DIR)
directory is created before we try to install locally the required
libbpf internal header. Let's create this directory properly instead.

This is in preparation of making $(LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS) a dependency to
the bootstrap bpftool version, in which case we want no dependency on
$(LIBBPF).

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211023205154.6710-2-quentin@isovalent.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Avoid leaking the JSON writer prepared for program metadata</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T23:44:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Monnet</name>
<email>quentin@isovalent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-22T09:47:43+00:00</published>
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Bpftool creates a new JSON object for writing program metadata in plain
text mode, regardless of metadata being present or not. Then this writer
is freed if any metadata has been found and printed, but it leaks
otherwise. We cannot destroy the object unconditionally, because the
destructor prints an undesirable line break. Instead, make sure the
writer is created only after we have found program metadata to print.

Found with valgrind.

Fixes: aff52e685eb3 ("bpftool: Support dumping metadata")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211022094743.11052-1-quentin@isovalent.com
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Bpftool creates a new JSON object for writing program metadata in plain
text mode, regardless of metadata being present or not. Then this writer
is freed if any metadata has been found and printed, but it leaks
otherwise. We cannot destroy the object unconditionally, because the
destructor prints an undesirable line break. Instead, make sure the
writer is created only after we have found program metadata to print.

Found with valgrind.

Fixes: aff52e685eb3 ("bpftool: Support dumping metadata")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet &lt;quentin@isovalent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211022094743.11052-1-quentin@isovalent.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Switch to new btf__type_cnt API</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T23:09:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hengqi Chen</name>
<email>hengqi.chen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-22T13:06:22+00:00</published>
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Replace the call to btf__get_nr_types with new API btf__type_cnt.
The old API will be deprecated in libbpf v0.7+. No functionality
change.

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/20211022130623.1548429-5-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
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Replace the call to btf__get_nr_types with new API btf__type_cnt.
The old API will be deprecated in libbpf v0.7+. No functionality
change.

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/20211022130623.1548429-5-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Improve skeleton generation for data maps without DATASEC type</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T00:10:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T01:44:00+00:00</published>
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It can happen that some data sections (e.g., .rodata.cst16, containing
compiler populated string constants) won't have a corresponding BTF
DATASEC type. Now that libbpf supports .rodata.* and .data.* sections,
situation like that will cause invalid BPF skeleton to be generated that
won't compile successfully, as some parts of skeleton would assume
memory-mapped struct definitions for each special data section.

Fix this by generating empty struct definitions for such data sections.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-7-andrii@kernel.org
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It can happen that some data sections (e.g., .rodata.cst16, containing
compiler populated string constants) won't have a corresponding BTF
DATASEC type. Now that libbpf supports .rodata.* and .data.* sections,
situation like that will cause invalid BPF skeleton to be generated that
won't compile successfully, as some parts of skeleton would assume
memory-mapped struct definitions for each special data section.

Fix this by generating empty struct definitions for such data sections.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-7-andrii@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpftool: Support multiple .rodata/.data internal maps in skeleton</title>
<updated>2021-10-22T00:10:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andrii@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-21T01:43:59+00:00</published>
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Remove the assumption about only single instance of each of .rodata and
.data internal maps. Nothing changes for '.rodata' and '.data' maps, but new
'.rodata.something' map will get 'rodata_something' section in BPF
skeleton for them (as well as having struct bpf_map * field in maps
section with the same field name).

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-6-andrii@kernel.org
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Remove the assumption about only single instance of each of .rodata and
.data internal maps. Nothing changes for '.rodata' and '.data' maps, but new
'.rodata.something' map will get 'rodata_something' section in BPF
skeleton for them (as well as having struct bpf_map * field in maps
section with the same field name).

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-6-andrii@kernel.org
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