netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 5/9] tools/bpftool: minimize bootstrap bpftool

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Date:   Thu, 18 Jun 2020 01:30:18 +0100
From:   Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, ast@...com, daniel@...earbox.net
Cc:     andrii.nakryiko@...il.com, kernel-team@...com,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 5/9] tools/bpftool: minimize bootstrap bpftool

2020-06-17 09:18 UTC-0700 ~ Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
> Build minimal "bootstrap mode" bpftool to enable skeleton (and, later,
> vmlinux.h generation), instead of building almost complete, but slightly
> different (w/o skeletons, etc) bpftool to bootstrap complete bpftool build.
> 
> Current approach doesn't scale well (engineering-wise) when adding more BPF
> programs to bpftool and other complicated functionality, as it requires
> constant adjusting of the code to work in both bootstrapped mode and normal
> mode.
> 
> So it's better to build only minimal bpftool version that supports only BPF
> skeleton code generation and BTF-to-C conversion. Thankfully, this is quite
> easy to accomplish due to internal modularity of bpftool commands. This will
> also allow to keep adding new functionality to bpftool in general, without the
> need to care about bootstrap mode for those new parts of bpftool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>

Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>