netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: enable btf for use in all maps

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Date:   Thu, 9 Aug 2018 13:50:57 -0700
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, <ast@...nel.org>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: enable btf for use in all maps



On 8/9/18 12:42 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> Commit a26ca7c982cb ("bpf: btf: Add pretty print support to
> the basic arraymap") enabled support for BTF and dumping via
> BPF fs for arraymap. However, both can be decoupled from each
> other such that all BPF maps can be supported for attaching
> BTF key/value information, while not all maps necessarily
> need to dump via map_seq_show_elem() callback.
> 
> The check in array_map_check_btf() can be generalized as
> ultimatively the key and value size is the only contraint
> that needs to match for the map. The fact that the key needs
> to be of type int is optional; it could be any data type as
> long as it matches the 4 byte key size, just like hash table
> key or others could be of any data type as well.
> 
> Minimal example of a hash table dump which then works out
> of the box for bpftool:
> 
>    # bpftool map dump id 19
>    [{
>            "key": {
>                "": {
>                    "vip": 0,
>                    "vipv6": []
>                },
>                "port": 0,
>                "family": 0,
>                "proto": 0
>            },
>            "value": {
>                "flags": 0,
>                "vip_num": 0
>            }
>        }
>    ]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>

LGTM. Thanks!
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>