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Message-ID: <20180419194034.GB3254@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:40:34 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 00/10] BTF: BPF Type Format
Em Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 03:55:56PM -0700, Martin KaFai Lau escreveu:
> This patch introduces BPF Type Format (BTF).
>
> BTF (BPF Type Format) is the meta data format which describes
> the data types of BPF program/map. Hence, it basically focus
> on the C programming language which the modern BPF is primary
> using. The first use case is to provide a generic pretty print
> capability for a BPF map.
>
> A modified pahole that can convert dwarf to BTF is here:
> https://github.com/iamkafai/pahole/tree/btf
> (Arnaldo, there is some BTF_KIND numbering changes on
> Apr 18th, d61426c1571)
Thanks for letting me know, I'm starting to look at this,
- Arnaldo
> Please see individual patch for details.
>
> v5:
> - Remove BTF_KIND_FLOAT and BTF_KIND_FUNC which are not
> currently used. They can be added in the future.
> Some bpf_df_xxx() are removed together.
> - Add comment in patch 7 to clarify that the new bpffs_map_fops
> should not be extended further.
>
> v4:
> - Fix warning (remove unneeded semicolon)
> - Remove a redundant variable (nr_bytes) from btf_int_check_meta() in
> patch 1. Caught by W=1.
>
> v3:
> - Rebase to bpf-next
> - Fix sparse warning (by adding static)
> - Add BTF header logging: btf_verifier_log_hdr()
> - Fix the alignment test on btf->type_off
> - Add tests for the BTF header
> - Lower the max BTF size to 16MB. It should be enough
> for some time. We could raise it later if it would
> be needed.
>
> v2:
> - Use kvfree where needed in patch 1 and 2
> - Also consider BTF_INT_OFFSET() in the btf_int_check_meta()
> in patch 1
> - Fix an incorrect goto target in map_create() during
> the btf-error-path in patch 7
> - re-org some local vars to keep the rev xmas tree in btf.c
>
> Martin KaFai Lau (10):
> bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)
> bpf: btf: Validate type reference
> bpf: btf: Check members of struct/union
> bpf: btf: Add pretty print capability for data with BTF type info
> bpf: btf: Add BPF_BTF_LOAD command
> bpf: btf: Add BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD support to BTF fd
> bpf: btf: Add pretty print support to the basic arraymap
> bpf: btf: Sync bpf.h and btf.h to tools/
> bpf: btf: Add BTF support to libbpf
> bpf: btf: Add BTF tests
>
> include/linux/bpf.h | 20 +-
> include/linux/btf.h | 48 +
> include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 12 +
> include/uapi/linux/btf.h | 130 ++
> kernel/bpf/Makefile | 1 +
> kernel/bpf/arraymap.c | 50 +
> kernel/bpf/btf.c | 2064 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/bpf/inode.c | 156 +-
> kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 51 +-
> tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 12 +
> tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h | 130 ++
> tools/lib/bpf/Build | 2 +-
> tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 92 +-
> tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h | 16 +
> tools/lib/bpf/btf.c | 374 +++++
> tools/lib/bpf/btf.h | 22 +
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 148 +-
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 3 +
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 26 +-
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_btf.c | 1669 +++++++++++++++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_btf_haskv.c | 48 +
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_btf_nokv.c | 43 +
> 22 files changed, 5076 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/linux/btf.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/btf.h
> create mode 100644 kernel/bpf/btf.c
> create mode 100644 tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h
> create mode 100644 tools/lib/bpf/btf.c
> create mode 100644 tools/lib/bpf/btf.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_btf.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_btf_haskv.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_btf_nokv.c
>
> --
> 2.9.5
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