Open code raw_tracepoint_open and link_create used by light skeleton
to be able to avoid full libbpf eventually.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131220528.98088-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
bpf iterator programs should use bpf_link_create to attach instead of
bpf_raw_tracepoint_open like other tracing programs.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131220528.98088-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Use bpf_program__type() instead of discouraged bpf_program__get_type().
Also switch to bpf_map__set_max_entries() instead of bpf_map__resize().
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220124194254.2051434-5-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
libbpf bpf_map__def() API is being deprecated, replace bpftool's
usage with the appropriate getters and setters
Signed-off-by: Christy Lee <christylee@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220108004218.355761-3-christylee@fb.com
After `bpftool gen skeleton`, the ${bpf_app}.skel.h will provide that
${bpf_app_name}__open helper to load bpf. If there is some error
like ENOMEM, the ${bpf_app_name}__open will rollback(free) the allocated
object, including `bpf_object_skeleton`.
Since the ${bpf_app_name}__create_skeleton set the obj->skeleton first
and not rollback it when error, it will cause double-free in
${bpf_app_name}__destory at ${bpf_app_name}__open. Therefore, we should
set the obj->skeleton before return 0;
Fixes: 5dc7a8b211 ("bpftool, selftests/bpf: Embed object file inside skeleton")
Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <fuweid89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220108084008.1053111-1-fuweid89@gmail.com
Switch all the uses of to-be-deprecated bpf_object__load_xattr() into
a simple bpf_object__load() calls with optional log_level passed through
open_opts.kernel_log_level, if -d option is specified.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211209193840.1248570-13-andrii@kernel.org
Currently, LIBBPF_STRICT_ALL mode is enabled by default for
bpftool which means on error cases, some libbpf APIs would
return NULL pointers. This makes IS_ERR check failed to detect
such cases and result in segfault error. Use libbpf_get_error()
instead like we do in libbpf itself.
Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211115012436.3143318-1-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
Use v1.0-compatible variants of btf_dump and perf_buffer "constructors".
This is also a demonstration of reusing struct perf_buffer_raw_opts as
OPTS-style option struct for new perf_buffer__new_raw() API.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211111053624.190580-10-andrii@kernel.org
Replace the call to btf__get_nr_types with new API btf__type_cnt.
The old API will be deprecated in libbpf v0.7+. No functionality
change.
Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211022130623.1548429-5-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
It can happen that some data sections (e.g., .rodata.cst16, containing
compiler populated string constants) won't have a corresponding BTF
DATASEC type. Now that libbpf supports .rodata.* and .data.* sections,
situation like that will cause invalid BPF skeleton to be generated that
won't compile successfully, as some parts of skeleton would assume
memory-mapped struct definitions for each special data section.
Fix this by generating empty struct definitions for such data sections.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-7-andrii@kernel.org
Remove the assumption about only single instance of each of .rodata and
.data internal maps. Nothing changes for '.rodata' and '.data' maps, but new
'.rodata.something' map will get 'rodata_something' section in BPF
skeleton for them (as well as having struct bpf_map * field in maps
section with the same field name).
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211021014404.2635234-6-andrii@kernel.org
It seems that the header file was never necessary to compile bpftool,
and it is not part of the headers exported from libbpf. Let's remove the
includes from prog.c and gen.c.
Fixes: d510296d33 ("bpftool: Use syscall/loader program in "prog load" and "gen skeleton" command.")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211007194438.34443-3-quentin@isovalent.com
"?:" is a GNU C extension, some environment has warning flags for its
use, or even prohibit it directly. This patch avoid triggering these
problems by simply expand it to its full form, no functionality change.
Signed-off-by: Yucong Sun <fallentree@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210928184221.1545079-1-fallentree@fb.com
This adds a skeleton method X__elf_bytes() which returns the binary data of
the compiled and embedded BPF object file. It additionally sets the size of
the return data to the provided size_t pointer argument.
The assignment to s->data is cast to void * to ensure no warning is issued if
compiled with a previous version of libbpf where the bpf_object_skeleton field
is void * instead of const void *
Signed-off-by: Matt Smith <alastorze@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210901194439.3853238-3-alastorze@fb.com
The -L|--use-loader option for using loader programs when loading, or
when generating a skeleton, did not have any documentation or bash
completion. Same thing goes for -B|--base-btf, used to pass a path to a
base BTF object for split BTF such as BTF for kernel modules.
This patch documents and adds bash completion for those options.
Fixes: 75fa177769 ("tools/bpftool: Add bpftool support for split BTF")
Fixes: d510296d33 ("bpftool: Use syscall/loader program in "prog load" and "gen skeleton" command.")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210730215435.7095-7-quentin@isovalent.com
All bpftool commands support the options for JSON output and debug from
libbpf. In addition, some commands support additional options
corresponding to specific use cases.
The list of options described in the man pages for the different
commands are not always accurate. The messages for interactive help are
mostly limited to HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS, and are even less representative of
the actual set of options supported for the commands.
Let's update the lists:
- HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS is modified to contain the "default" options (JSON
and debug), and to be extensible (no ending curly bracket).
- All commands use HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS in their help message, and then
complete the list with their specific options.
- The lists of options in the man pages are updated.
- The formatting of the list for bpftool.rst is adjusted to match
formatting for the other man pages. This is for consistency, and also
because it will be helpful in a future patch to automatically check
that the files are synchronised.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210730215435.7095-5-quentin@isovalent.com
Follow libbpf's error handling conventions and pass through errors and errno
properly. Skeleton code always returned NULL on errors (not ERR_PTR(err)), so
there are no backwards compatibility concerns. But now we also set errno
properly, so it's possible to distinguish different reasons for failure, if
necessary.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210525035935.1461796-6-andrii@kernel.org
Add -L flag to bpftool to use libbpf gen_trace facility and syscall/loader program
for skeleton generation and program loading.
"bpftool gen skeleton -L" command will generate a "light skeleton" or "loader skeleton"
that is similar to existing skeleton, but has one major difference:
$ bpftool gen skeleton lsm.o > lsm.skel.h
$ bpftool gen skeleton -L lsm.o > lsm.lskel.h
$ diff lsm.skel.h lsm.lskel.h
@@ -5,34 +4,34 @@
#define __LSM_SKEL_H__
#include <stdlib.h>
-#include <bpf/libbpf.h>
+#include <bpf/bpf.h>
The light skeleton does not use majority of libbpf infrastructure.
It doesn't need libelf. It doesn't parse .o file.
It only needs few sys_bpf wrappers. All of them are in bpf/bpf.h file.
In future libbpf/bpf.c can be inlined into bpf.h, so not even libbpf.a would be
needed to work with light skeleton.
"bpftool prog load -L file.o" command is introduced for debugging of syscall/loader
program generation. Just like the same command without -L it will try to load
the programs from file.o into the kernel. It won't even try to pin them.
"bpftool prog load -L -d file.o" command will provide additional debug messages
on how syscall/loader program was generated.
Also the execution of syscall/loader program will use bpf_trace_printk() for
each step of loading BTF, creating maps, and loading programs.
The user can do "cat /.../trace_pipe" for further debug.
An example of fexit_sleep.lskel.h generated from progs/fexit_sleep.c:
struct fexit_sleep {
struct bpf_loader_ctx ctx;
struct {
struct bpf_map_desc bss;
} maps;
struct {
struct bpf_prog_desc nanosleep_fentry;
struct bpf_prog_desc nanosleep_fexit;
} progs;
struct {
int nanosleep_fentry_fd;
int nanosleep_fexit_fd;
} links;
struct fexit_sleep__bss {
int pid;
int fentry_cnt;
int fexit_cnt;
} *bss;
};
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210514003623.28033-18-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
As discussed in [0], stop emitting static variables in BPF skeletons to avoid
issues with name-conflicting static variables across multiple
statically-linked BPF object files.
Users using static variables to pass data between BPF programs and user-space
should do a trivial one-time switch according to the following simple rules:
- read-only `static volatile const` variables should be converted to
`volatile const`;
- read/write `static volatile` variables should just drop `static volatile`
modifiers to become global variables/symbols. To better handle older Clang
versions, such newly converted global variables should be explicitly
initialized with a specific value or `= 0`/`= {}`, whichever is
appropriate.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAEf4BzZo7_r-hsNvJt3w3kyrmmBJj7ghGY8+k4nvKF0KLjma=w@mail.gmail.com/T/#m664d4b0d6b31ac8b2669360e0fc2d6962e9f5ec1
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210507054119.270888-5-andrii@kernel.org
For better future extensibility add per-file linker options. Currently
the set of available options is empty. This changes bpf_linker__add_file()
API, but it's not a breaking change as bpf_linker APIs hasn't been released
yet.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210507054119.270888-3-andrii@kernel.org
Similarly to .rodata, strip any const/volatile/restrict modifiers when
generating BPF skeleton. They are not helpful and actually just get in the way.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210507054119.270888-2-andrii@kernel.org
Add `bpftool gen object <output-file> <input_file>...` command to statically
link multiple BPF ELF object files into a single output BPF ELF object file.
This patch also updates bash completions and man page. Man page gets a short
section on `gen object` command, but also updates the skeleton example to show
off workflow for BPF application with two .bpf.c files, compiled individually
with Clang, then resulting object files are linked together with `gen object`,
and then final object file is used to generate usable BPF skeleton. This
should help new users understand realistic workflow w.r.t. compiling
mutli-file BPF application.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-10-andrii@kernel.org
Add optional name OBJECT_NAME parameter to `gen skeleton` command to override
default object name, normally derived from input file name. This allows much
more flexibility during build time.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-9-andrii@kernel.org
Most netlink-related functions were unique to bpftool usage, so I moved them
into net.c. Few functions are still used by both bpftool and libbpf itself
internally, so I've copy-pasted them (libbpf_nl_get_link,
libbpf_netlink_open). It's a bit of duplication of code, but better separation
of libbpf as a library with public API and bpftool, relying on unexposed
functions in libbpf.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819013607.3607269-3-andriin@fb.com
The comment in the code describes this in good details. Generate such a memory
layout that would work both on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures for user-space.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200813204945.1020225-9-andriin@fb.com
Seems like C++17 standard mode doesn't recognize typeof() anymore. This can
be tested by compiling test_cpp test with -std=c++17 or -std=c++1z options.
The use of typeof in skeleton generated code is unnecessary, all types are
well-known at the time of code generation, so remove all typeof()'s to make
skeleton code more future-proof when interacting with C++ compilers.
Fixes: 985ead416d ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200812025907.1371956-1-andriin@fb.com
Reliably remove all the type modifiers from read-only (.rodata) global
variable definitions, including cases of inner field const modifiers and
arrays of const values.
Also modify one of selftests to ensure that const volatile struct doesn't
prevent user-space from modifying .rodata variable.
Fixes: 985ead416d ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200713232409.3062144-3-andriin@fb.com
Remove unnecessary check at the end of codegen() routine which makes codegen()
to always fail and exit bpftool with error code. Positive value of variable
n is not an indicator of a failure.
Fixes: 2c4779eff8 ("tools, bpftool: Exit on error in function codegen")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200612201603.680852-1-andriin@fb.com
Currently, the codegen function might fail and return an error. But its
callers continue without checking its return value. Since codegen can
fail only in the unlikely case of the system running out of memory or
the static template being malformed, just exit(-1) directly from codegen
and make it void-returning.
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200611103341.21532-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
Free the memory allocated for the template on error paths in function
codegen.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200610130804.21423-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
This is a clean-up for the formatting of the do_help functions for
bpftool's subcommands. The following fixes are included:
- Do not use argv[-2] for "iter" help message, as the help is shown by
default if no "iter" action is selected, resulting in messages looking
like "./bpftool bpftool pin...".
- Do not print unused HELP_SPEC_PROGRAM in help message for "bpftool
link".
- Andrii used argument indexing to avoid having multiple occurrences of
bin_name and argv[-2] in the fprintf() for the help message, for
"bpftool gen" and "bpftool link". Let's reuse this for all other help
functions. We can remove up to thirty arguments for the "bpftool map"
help message.
- Harmonise all functions, e.g. use ending quotes-comma on a separate
line.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200523010751.23465-1-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fix bpftool to include libbpf header files with the bpf/ prefix, to be
consistent with external users of the library. Also ensure that all
includes of exported libbpf header files (those that are exported on 'make
install' of the library) use bracketed includes instead of quoted.
To make sure no new files are introduced that doesn't include the bpf/
prefix in its include, remove tools/lib/bpf from the include path entirely,
and use tools/lib instead.
Fixes: 6910d7d386 ("selftests/bpf: Ensure bpf_helper_defs.h are taken from selftests dir")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/157952560684.1683545.4765181397974997027.stgit@toke.dk
When auto-generated BPF skeleton C code is included from C++ application, it
triggers compilation error due to void * being implicitly casted to whatever
target pointer type. This is supported by C, but not C++. To solve this
problem, add explicit casts, where necessary.
To ensure issues like this are captured going forward, add skeleton usage in
test_cpp test.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191226210253.3132060-1-andriin@fb.com
Change format string referring to just single argument out of two available.
Some versions of libc can reject such format string.
Reported-by: Nikita Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218214314.2403729-1-andriin@fb.com
Embed contents of BPF object file used for BPF skeleton generation inside
skeleton itself. This allows to keep BPF object file and its skeleton in sync
at all times, and simpifies skeleton instantiation.
Also switch existing selftests to not require BPF_EMBED_OBJ anymore.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-2-andriin@fb.com
The ident variable has already been declared at the top of the function
and doesn't need to be re-declared.
Fixes: 985ead416d ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216112733.GA28366@Omicron
Add support for generation of mmap()-ed read-only view of libbpf-provided
extern variables. As externs are not supposed to be provided by user code
(that's what .data, .bss, and .rodata is for), don't mmap() it initially. Only
after skeleton load is performed, map .extern contents as read-only memory.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-4-andriin@fb.com
Add `bpftool gen skeleton` command, which takes in compiled BPF .o object file
and dumps a BPF skeleton struct and related code to work with that skeleton.
Skeleton itself is tailored to a specific structure of provided BPF object
file, containing accessors (just plain struct fields) for every map and
program, as well as dedicated space for bpf_links. If BPF program is using
global variables, corresponding structure definitions of compatible memory
layout are emitted as well, making it possible to initialize and subsequently
read/update global variables values using simple and clear C syntax for
accessing fields. This skeleton majorly improves usability of
opening/loading/attaching of BPF object, as well as interacting with it
throughout the lifetime of loaded BPF object.
Generated skeleton struct has the following structure:
struct <object-name> {
/* used by libbpf's skeleton API */
struct bpf_object_skeleton *skeleton;
/* bpf_object for libbpf APIs */
struct bpf_object *obj;
struct {
/* for every defined map in BPF object: */
struct bpf_map *<map-name>;
} maps;
struct {
/* for every program in BPF object: */
struct bpf_program *<program-name>;
} progs;
struct {
/* for every program in BPF object: */
struct bpf_link *<program-name>;
} links;
/* for every present global data section: */
struct <object-name>__<one of bss, data, or rodata> {
/* memory layout of corresponding data section,
* with every defined variable represented as a struct field
* with exactly the same type, but without const/volatile
* modifiers, e.g.:
*/
int *my_var_1;
...
} *<one of bss, data, or rodata>;
};
This provides great usability improvements:
- no need to look up maps and programs by name, instead just
my_obj->maps.my_map or my_obj->progs.my_prog would give necessary
bpf_map/bpf_program pointers, which user can pass to existing libbpf APIs;
- pre-defined places for bpf_links, which will be automatically populated for
program types that libbpf knows how to attach automatically (currently
tracepoints, kprobe/kretprobe, raw tracepoint and tracing programs). On
tearing down skeleton, all active bpf_links will be destroyed (meaning BPF
programs will be detached, if they are attached). For cases in which libbpf
doesn't know how to auto-attach BPF program, user can manually create link
after loading skeleton and they will be auto-detached on skeleton
destruction:
my_obj->links.my_fancy_prog = bpf_program__attach_cgroup_whatever(
my_obj->progs.my_fancy_prog, <whatever extra param);
- it's extremely easy and convenient to work with global data from userspace
now. Both for read-only and read/write variables, it's possible to
pre-initialize them before skeleton is loaded:
skel = my_obj__open(raw_embed_data);
my_obj->rodata->my_var = 123;
my_obj__load(skel); /* 123 will be initialization value for my_var */
After load, if kernel supports mmap() for BPF arrays, user can still read
(and write for .bss and .data) variables values, but at that point it will
be directly mmap()-ed to BPF array, backing global variables. This allows to
seamlessly exchange data with BPF side. From userspace program's POV, all
the pointers and memory contents stay the same, but mapped kernel memory
changes to point to created map.
If kernel doesn't yet support mmap() for BPF arrays, it's still possible to
use those data section structs to pre-initialize .bss, .data, and .rodata,
but after load their pointers will be reset to NULL, allowing user code to
gracefully handle this condition, if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-14-andriin@fb.com
