netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 1/7] libbpf: split bpf_core_apply

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQ+WdxFzK9mZVO8tpRy_U=oKKUkX23KBWJWftqhuZRt9vA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:52:57 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Mauricio Vásquez <mauricio@...volk.io>
Cc:     Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>,
        Rafael David Tinoco <rafaeldtinoco@...il.com>,
        Lorenzo Fontana <lorenzo.fontana@...stic.co>,
        Leonardo Di Donato <leonardo.didonato@...stic.co>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 1/7] libbpf: split bpf_core_apply_relo()

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:59 PM Mauricio Vásquez <mauricio@...volk.io> wrote:
>
> BTFGen needs to run the core relocation logic in order to understand
> what are the types involved in a given relocation.
>
> Currently bpf_core_apply_relo() calculates and **applies** a relocation
> to an instruction. Having both operations in the same function makes it
> difficult to only calculate the relocation without patching the
> instruction. This commit splits that logic in two different phases: (1)
> calculate the relocation and (2) patch the instruction.
>
> For the first phase bpf_core_apply_relo() is renamed to
> bpf_core_calc_relo_insn() who is now only on charge of calculating the
> relocation, the second phase uses the already existing
> bpf_core_patch_insn(). bpf_object__relocate_core() uses both of them and
> the BTFGen will use only bpf_core_calc_relo_insn().
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauricio Vásquez <mauricio@...volk.io>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@...asec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Fontana <lorenzo.fontana@...stic.co>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Di Donato <leonardo.didonato@...stic.co>
> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>