linux/tools/lib
Andrii Nakryiko ec41817b4a libbpf: Allow to opt-out from creating BPF maps
Add bpf_map__set_autocreate() API that allows user to opt-out from
libbpf automatically creating BPF map during BPF object load.

This is a useful feature when building CO-RE-enabled BPF application
that takes advantage of some new-ish BPF map type (e.g., socket-local
storage) if kernel supports it, but otherwise uses some alternative way
(e.g., extra HASH map). In such case, being able to disable the creation
of a map that kernel doesn't support allows to successfully create and
load BPF object file with all its other maps and programs.

It's still up to user to make sure that no "live" code in any of their BPF
programs are referencing such map instance, which can be achieved by
guarding such code with CO-RE relocation check or by using .rodata
global variables.

If user fails to properly guard such code to turn it into "dead code",
libbpf will helpfully post-process BPF verifier log and will provide
more meaningful error and map name that needs to be guarded properly. As
such, instead of:

  ; value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&missing_map, &zero);
  4: (85) call unknown#2001000000
  invalid func unknown#2001000000

... user will see:

  ; value = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&missing_map, &zero);
  4: <invalid BPF map reference>
  BPF map 'missing_map' is referenced but wasn't created

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220428041523.4089853-4-andrii@kernel.org
2022-04-28 20:03:29 -07:00
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api Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
bpf libbpf: Allow to opt-out from creating BPF maps 2022-04-28 20:03:29 -07:00
perf perf tools: Fix segfault accessing sample_id xyarray 2022-04-13 22:23:02 -03:00
subcmd Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
symbol libsymbols kallsyms: Move hex2u64 out of header 2020-05-05 16:35:32 -03:00
traceevent libtraceevent: Add __rel_loc relative location attribute support 2021-12-06 15:37:22 -05:00
argv_split.c tools lib: Move argv_{split,free} from tools/perf/util/ 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
bitmap.c tools lib: Adopt bitmap_intersects() operation from the kernel sources 2021-06-30 15:28:00 -03:00
ctype.c tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
find_bit.c tools: sync tools/bitmap with mother linux 2022-01-15 08:47:31 -08:00
hweight.c
list_sort.c tools lib: Adopt list_sort() from the kernel sources 2021-10-20 10:30:59 -03:00
rbtree.c tools/: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
slab.c tools: Move gfp.h and slab.h from radix-tree to lib 2022-02-20 08:44:37 +02:00
str_error_r.c
string.c tools lib: Adopt memchr_inv() from kernel 2020-11-27 08:34:52 -03:00
vsprintf.c perf script: Pad DSO name for --call-trace 2019-05-28 18:37:44 -03:00
zalloc.c tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00