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Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== This patch set introduces a new set of BTF APIs to libbpf that allow to conveniently produce BTF types and strings. These APIs will allow libbpf to do more intrusive modifications of program's BTF (by rewriting it, at least as of right now), which is necessary for the upcoming libbpf static linking. But they are complete and generic, so can be adopted by anyone who has a need to produce BTF type information. One such example outside of libbpf is pahole, which was actually converted to these APIs (locally, pending landing of these changes in libbpf) completely and shows reduction in amount of custom pahole code necessary and brings nice savings in memory usage (about 370MB reduction at peak for my kernel configuration) and even BTF deduplication times (one second reduction, 23.7s -> 22.7s). Memory savings are due to avoiding pahole's own copy of "uncompressed" raw BTF data. Time reduction comes from faster string search and deduplication by relying on hashmap instead of BST used by pahole's own code. Consequently, these APIs are already tested on real-world complicated kernel BTF, but there is also pretty extensive selftest doing extra validations. Selftests in patch #3 add a set of generic ASSERT_{EQ,STREQ,ERR,OK} macros that are useful for writing shorter and less repretitive selftests. I decided to keep them local to that selftest for now, but if they prove to be useful in more contexts we should move them to test_progs.h. And few more (e.g., inequality tests) macros are probably necessary to have a more complete set. Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> v2->v3: - resending original patches #7-9 as patches #1-3 due to merge conflict; v1->v2: - fixed comments (John); - renamed btf__append_xxx() into btf__add_xxx() (Alexei); - added btf__find_str() in addition to btf__add_str(); - btf__new_empty() now sets kernel FD to -1 initially. ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
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