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Teach BTF to recognized wrong endianness and transparently convert it internally to host endianness. Original endianness of BTF will be preserved and used during btf__get_raw_data() to convert resulting raw data to the same endianness and a source raw_data. This means that little-endian host can parse big-endian BTF with no issues, all the type data will be presented to the client application in native endianness, but when it's time for emitting BTF to persist it in a file (e.g., after BTF deduplication), original non-native endianness will be preserved and stored. It's possible to query original endianness of BTF data with new btf__endianness() API. It's also possible to override desired output endianness with btf__set_endianness(), so that if application needs to load, say, big-endian BTF and store it as little-endian BTF, it's possible to manually override this. If btf__set_endianness() was used to change endianness, btf__endianness() will reflect overridden endianness. Given there are no known use cases for supporting cross-endianness for .BTF.ext, loading .BTF.ext in non-native endianness is not supported. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929043046.1324350-3-andriin@fb.com
Linux kernel
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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.