Martin KaFai Lau says:
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This patch introduces BPF Type Format (BTF).
BTF (BPF Type Format) is the meta data format which describes
the data types of BPF program/map. Hence, it basically focus
on the C programming language which the modern BPF is primary
using. The first use case is to provide a generic pretty print
capability for a BPF map.
A modified pahole that can convert dwarf to BTF is here:
https://github.com/iamkafai/pahole/tree/btf
Please see individual patch for details.
v5:
- Remove BTF_KIND_FLOAT and BTF_KIND_FUNC which are not
currently used. They can be added in the future.
Some bpf_df_xxx() are removed together.
- Add comment in patch 7 to clarify that the new bpffs_map_fops
should not be extended further.
v4:
- Fix warning (remove unneeded semicolon)
- Remove a redundant variable (nr_bytes) from btf_int_check_meta() in
patch 1. Caught by W=1.
v3:
- Rebase to bpf-next
- Fix sparse warning (by adding static)
- Add BTF header logging: btf_verifier_log_hdr()
- Fix the alignment test on btf->type_off
- Add tests for the BTF header
- Lower the max BTF size to 16MB. It should be enough
for some time. We could raise it later if it would
be needed.
v2:
- Use kvfree where needed in patch 1 and 2
- Also consider BTF_INT_OFFSET() in the btf_int_check_meta()
in patch 1
- Fix an incorrect goto target in map_create() during
the btf-error-path in patch 7
- re-org some local vars to keep the rev xmas tree in btf.c
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>