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Allow internal BTF representation to switch from default read-only mode, in which raw BTF data is a single non-modifiable block of memory with BTF header, types, and strings layed out sequentially and contiguously in memory, into a writable representation with types and strings data split out into separate memory regions, that can be dynamically expanded. Such writable internal representation is transparent to users of libbpf APIs, but allows to append new types and strings at the end of BTF, which is a typical use case when generating BTF programmatically. All the basic guarantees of BTF types and strings layout is preserved, i.e., user can get `struct btf_type *` pointer and read it directly. Such btf_type pointers might be invalidated if BTF is modified, so some care is required in such mixed read/write scenarios. Switch from read-only to writable configuration happens automatically the first time when user attempts to modify BTF by either adding a new type or new string. It is still possible to get raw BTF data, which is a single piece of memory that can be persisted in ELF section or into a file as raw BTF. Such raw data memory is also still owned by BTF and will be freed either when BTF object is freed or if another modification to BTF happens, as any modification invalidates BTF raw representation. This patch adds the first two BTF manipulation APIs: btf__add_str(), which allows to add arbitrary strings to BTF string section, and btf__find_str() which allows to find existing string offset, but not add it if it's missing. All the added strings are automatically deduplicated. This is achieved by maintaining an additional string lookup index for all unique strings. Such index is built when BTF is switched to modifiable mode. If at that time BTF strings section contained duplicate strings, they are not de-duplicated. This is done specifically to not modify the existing content of BTF (types, their string offsets, etc), which can cause confusion and is especially important property if there is struct btf_ext associated with struct btf. By following this "imperfect deduplication" process, btf_ext is kept consitent and correct. If deduplication of strings is necessary, it can be forced by doing BTF deduplication, at which point all the strings will be eagerly deduplicated and all string offsets both in struct btf and struct btf_ext will be updated. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200926011357.2366158-6-andriin@fb.com |
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