netdev - Re: [PATCH] bpftool: Try to read btf as raw data if elf read fails

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Date:   Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:54:28 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, Martin Lau <kafai@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpftool: Try to read btf as raw data if elf read fails

On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 04:48:25PM +0000, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On 10/18/19 3:34 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > The bpftool interface stays the same, but now it's possible
> > to run it over BTF raw data, like:
> 
> Oh, great, I had similar patch laying around for a while, never got to 
> cleaning it up, though, so thanks for picking this up!
> 
> > 
> >    $ bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
> >    libbpf: failed to get EHDR from /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
> 
> We should implement this so that we don't get an extra log output with 
> errors. I've been thinking about checking first few bytes of the file. 
> If that matches BTF_MAGIC, then try to parse it as raw BTF, otherwise 
> parse as ELF w/ BTF. Does it make sense?

ok, sounds good

jirka