netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 00/13] bpf: Add btf func info support

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Message-ID: <07cf3a62-2660-4ab1-9a23-bc844dc7510f@solarflare.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:26:37 +0000
From:   Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
To:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 00/13] bpf: Add btf func info support

On 19/11/18 23:29, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> The BTF support was added to kernel by Commit 69b693f0aefa
> ("bpf: btf: Introduce BPF Type Format (BTF)"), which introduced
> .BTF section into ELF file and is primarily
> used for map pretty print.
> pahole is used to convert dwarf to BTF for ELF files.
>
> This patch added func info support to the kernel so we can
> get better ksym's for bpf function calls. Basically,
> function call types are passed to kernel and the kernel
> extract function names from these types in order to contruct ksym
> for these functions.
>
> [...]

Acked-by: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>