4 This directory contains a test stubs, verifier test-suite and examples
5 for using eBPF. The examples use libbpf from tools/lib/bpf.
10 Compiling requires having installed:
11 * clang >= version 3.4.0
12 * llvm >= version 3.7.1
14 Note that LLVM's tool 'llc' must support target 'bpf', list version
15 and supported targets with command: ``llc --version``
17 Clean and configuration
18 -----------------------
20 It can be needed to clean tools, samples or kernel before trying new arch or
21 after some changes (on demand)::
24 make -C samples/bpf clean
27 Configure kernel, defconfig for instance::
34 There are usually dependencies to header files of the current kernel.
35 To avoid installing devel kernel headers system wide, as a normal
40 This will creates a local "usr/include" directory in the git/build top
41 level directory, that the make system automatically pickup first.
46 For building the BPF samples, issue the below command from the kernel
51 It is also possible to call make from this directory. This will just
52 hide the invocation of make as above.
54 Manually compiling LLVM with 'bpf' support
55 ------------------------------------------
57 Since version 3.7.0, LLVM adds a proper LLVM backend target for the
58 BPF bytecode architecture.
60 By default llvm will build all non-experimental backends including bpf.
61 To generate a smaller llc binary one can use::
63 -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF"
65 We recommend that developers who want the fastest incremental builds
66 use the Ninja build system, you can find it in your system's package
67 manager, usually the package is ninja or ninja-build.
69 Quick sniplet for manually compiling LLVM and clang
70 (build dependencies are ninja, cmake and gcc-c++)::
72 $ git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
73 $ mkdir -p llvm-project/llvm/build
74 $ cd llvm-project/llvm/build
75 $ cmake .. -G "Ninja" -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF;X86" \
76 -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang" \
77 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
78 -DLLVM_BUILD_RUNTIME=OFF
81 It is also possible to point make to the newly compiled 'llc' or
82 'clang' command via redefining LLC or CLANG on the make command line::
84 make M=samples/bpf LLC=~/git/llvm-project/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm-project/llvm/build/bin/clang
86 Cross compiling samples
87 -----------------------
88 In order to cross-compile, say for arm64 targets, export CROSS_COMPILE and ARCH
89 environment variables before calling make. But do this before clean,
90 cofiguration and header install steps described above. This will direct make to
91 build samples for the cross target::
94 export CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-"
96 Headers can be also installed on RFS of target board if need to keep them in
97 sync (not necessarily and it creates a local "usr/include" directory also)::
99 make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=~/some_sysroot/usr headers_install
101 Pointing LLC and CLANG is not necessarily if it's installed on HOST and have
102 in its targets appropriate arm64 arch (usually it has several arches).
107 Or build samples with SYSROOT if some header or library is absent in toolchain,
108 say libelf, providing address to file system containing headers and libs,
109 can be RFS of target board::
111 make M=samples/bpf SYSROOT=~/some_sysroot