linux/tools/lib
Andrii Nakryiko dd4436bb83 libbpf: Teach bpf_object__open to guess program types
Teach bpf_object__open how to guess program type and expected attach
type from section names, similar to what bpf_prog_load() does. This
seems like a really useful features and an oversight to not have this
done during bpf_object_open(). To preserver backwards compatible
behavior of bpf_prog_load(), its attr->prog_type is treated as an
override of bpf_object__open() decisions, if attr->prog_type is not
UNSPECIFIED.

There is a slight difference in behavior for bpf_prog_load().
Previously, if bpf_prog_load() was loading BPF object with more than one
program, first program's guessed program type and expected attach type
would determine corresponding attributes of all the subsequent program
types, even if their sections names suggest otherwise. That seems like
a rather dubious behavior and with this change it will behave more
sanely: each program's type is determined individually, unless they are
forced to uniformity through attr->prog_type.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191021033902.3856966-5-andriin@fb.com
History 2019-10-21 14:49:12 +02:00
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api treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 251 2019-06-05 17:30:26 +02:00
bpf libbpf: Teach bpf_object__open to guess program types 2019-10-21 14:49:12 +02:00
lockdep lockdep/lib/tests: Test dynamic key registration 2019-02-28 07:55:48 +01:00
subcmd tools lib subcmd: Don't add the kernel sources to the include path 2018-12-18 12:23:56 -03:00
symbol tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
traceevent libtraceevent: Man pages for tep plugins APIs 2019-09-25 09:51:43 -03:00
argv_split.c tools lib: Move argv_{split,free} from tools/perf/util/ 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
bitmap.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 230 2019-06-19 17:09:06 +02:00
ctype.c tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
find_bit.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
hweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rbtree.c rbtree: avoid generating code twice for the cached versions (tools copy) 2019-09-25 17:51:39 -07:00
str_error_r.c objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error 2018-03-19 13:51:54 -03:00
string.c tools lib: Adopt strreplace() from the kernel 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
vsprintf.c perf script: Pad DSO name for --call-trace 2019-05-28 18:37:44 -03:00
zalloc.c tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00