bpf tools: Read eBPF object from buffer
authorWang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Wed, 1 Jul 2015 02:13:54 +0000 (02:13 +0000)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:16:56 +0000 (10:16 -0300)
commit6c956392b0486c170e382476ab9dd97a696fd169
tree3bbff5d99397458bb8d2e15708e038fc1c2a32ae
parent1a5e3fb1e9a4a3e3695cd57c33c169a90d16fd3b
bpf tools: Read eBPF object from buffer

To support dynamic compiling, this patch allows caller to pass a
in-memory buffer to libbpf by bpf_object__open_buffer(). libbpf calls
elf_memory() to open it as ELF object file.

Because __bpf_object__open() collects all required data and won't need
that buffer anymore, libbpf uses that buffer directly instead of clone a
new buffer. Caller of libbpf can free that buffer or use it do other
things after bpf_object__open_buffer() return.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435716878-189507-7-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h