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Support split BTF operation, in which one BTF (base BTF) provides basic set of types and strings, while another one (split BTF) builds on top of base's types and strings and adds its own new types and strings. From API standpoint, the fact that the split BTF is built on top of the base BTF is transparent. Type numeration is transparent. If the base BTF had last type ID #N, then all types in the split BTF start at type ID N+1. Any type in split BTF can reference base BTF types, but not vice versa. Programmatically construction of a split BTF on top of a base BTF is supported: one can create an empty split BTF with btf__new_empty_split() and pass base BTF as an input, or pass raw binary data to btf__new_split(), or use btf__parse_xxx_split() variants to get initial set of split types/strings from the ELF file with .BTF section. String offsets are similarly transparent and are a logical continuation of base BTF's strings. When building BTF programmatically and adding a new string (explicitly with btf__add_str() or implicitly through appending new types/members), string-to-be-added would first be looked up from the base BTF's string section and re-used if it's there. If not, it will be looked up and/or added to the split BTF string section. Similarly to type IDs, types in split BTF can refer to strings from base BTF absolutely transparently (but not vice versa, of course, because base BTF doesn't "know" about existence of split BTF). Internal type index is slightly adjusted to be zero-indexed, ignoring a fake [0] VOID type. This allows to handle split/base BTF type lookups transparently by using btf->start_id type ID offset, which is always 1 for base/non-split BTF and equals btf__get_nr_types(base_btf) + 1 for the split BTF. BTF deduplication is not yet supported for split BTF and support for it will be added in separate patch. 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/20201105043402.2530976-5-andrii@kernel.org |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.