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Map name that's assigned to internal maps (.rodata, .data, .bss, etc) consist of a small prefix of bpf_object's name and ELF section name as a suffix. This makes it hard for users to "guess" the name to use for looking up by name with bpf_object__find_map_by_name() API. One proposal was to drop object name prefix from the map name and just use ".rodata", ".data", etc, names. One downside called out was that when multiple BPF applications are active on the host, it will be hard to distinguish between multiple instances of .rodata and know which BPF object (app) they belong to. Having few first characters, while quite limiting, still can give a bit of a clue, in general. Note, though, that btf_value_type_id for such global data maps (ARRAY) points to DATASEC type, which encodes full ELF name, so tools like bpftool can take advantage of this fact to "recover" full original name of the map. This is also the reason why for custom .data.* and .rodata.* maps libbpf uses only their ELF names and doesn't prepend object name at all. Another downside of such approach is that it is not backwards compatible and, among direct use of bpf_object__find_map_by_name() API, will break any BPF skeleton generated using bpftool that was compiled with older libbpf version. Instead of causing all this pain, libbpf will still generate map name using a combination of object name and ELF section name, but it will allow looking such maps up by their natural names, which correspond to their respective ELF section names. This means non-truncated ELF section names longer than 15 characters are going to be expected and supported. With such set up, we get the best of both worlds: leave small bits of a clue about BPF application that instantiated such maps, as well as making it easy for user apps to lookup such maps at runtime. In this sense it closes corresponding libbpf 1.0 issue ([0]). BPF skeletons will continue using full names for lookups. [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/275 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/20211021014404.2635234-10-andrii@kernel.org |
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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.