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

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Message-ID: <20181120190150.z5hqr2mztctxro3o@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:01:52 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Cc:     Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        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 Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 11:26:37AM +0000, Edward Cree wrote:
> 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>

Applied to bpf-next. Thank you everyone.