linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] libbpf: add support for printing BTF character arrays as strings

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Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:00:33 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] libbpf: add support for printing BTF character
 arrays
 as strings

Hello:

This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (master)
by Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>:

On Tue,  3 Jun 2025 13:37:00 -0700 you wrote:
> The BTF dumper code currently displays arrays of characters as just that -
> arrays, with each character formatted individually. Sometimes this is what
> makes sense, but it's nice to be able to treat that array as a string.
> 
> This change adds a special case to the btf_dump functionality to allow
> 0-terminated arrays of single-byte integer values to be printed as
> character strings. Characters for which isprint() returns false are
> printed as hex-escaped values. This is enabled when the new ".emit_strings"
> is set to 1 in the btf_dump_type_data_opts structure.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v3,1/2] libbpf: add support for printing BTF character arrays as strings
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/87c9c79a02b4
  - [v3,2/2] Tests for the ".emit_strings" functionality in the BTF dumper.
    https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/a570f386f3d1

You are awesome, thank you!
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