netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: btf: support proper non-jit func info

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Date:   Mon, 26 Nov 2018 17:21:09 +0000
From:   Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
CC:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        "daniel@...earbox.net" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] bpf: btf: support proper non-jit func info

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 11:20:44PM -0800, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Commit 838e96904ff3 ("bpf: Introduce bpf_func_info")
> added bpf func info support. The userspace is able
> to get better ksym's for bpf programs with jit, and
> is able to print out func prototypes.
> 
> For a program containing func-to-func calls, the existing
> implementation returns user specified number of function
> calls and BTF types if jit is enabled. If the jit is not
> enabled, it only returns the type for the main function.
> 
> This is undesirable. Interpreter may still be used
> and we should keep feature identical regardless of
> whether jit is enabled or not.
> This patch fixed this discrepancy.
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>