linux/tools
Andrii Nakryiko 8fd27bf69b libbpf: Add BPF static linker BTF and BTF.ext support
Add .BTF and .BTF.ext static linking logic.

When multiple BPF object files are linked together, their respective .BTF and
.BTF.ext sections are merged together. BTF types are not just concatenated,
but also deduplicated. .BTF.ext data is grouped by type (func info, line info,
core_relos) and target section names, and then all the records are
concatenated together, preserving their relative order. All the BTF type ID
references and string offsets are updated as necessary, to take into account
possibly deduplicated strings and types.

BTF DATASEC types are handled specially. Their respective var_secinfos are
accumulated separately in special per-section data and then final DATASEC
types are emitted at the very end during bpf_linker__finalize() operation,
just before emitting final ELF output file.

BTF data can also provide "section annotations" for some extern variables.
Such concept is missing in ELF, but BTF will have DATASEC types for such
special extern datasections (e.g., .kconfig, .ksyms). Such sections are called
"ephemeral" internally. Internally linker will keep metadata for each such
section, collecting variables information, but those sections won't be emitted
into the final ELF file.

Also, given LLVM/Clang during compilation emits BTF DATASECS that are
incomplete, missing section size and variable offsets for static variables,
BPF static linker will initially fix up such DATASECs, using ELF symbols data.
The final DATASECs will preserve section sizes and all variable offsets. This
is handled correctly by libbpf already, so won't cause any new issues. On the
other hand, it's actually a nice property to have a complete BTF data without
runtime adjustments done during bpf_object__open() by libbpf. In that sense,
BPF static linker is also a BTF normalizer.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-8-andrii@kernel.org
2021-03-18 16:14:22 -07:00
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accounting
arch tools headers UAPI: Sync KVM's kvm.h and vmx.h headers with the kernel sources 2021-03-06 16:54:30 -03:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add tracing_on support to helper scripts 2021-01-14 10:32:20 -05:00
bpf bpftool: Fix maybe-uninitialized warnings 2021-03-16 12:26:49 -07:00
build perf build: Move feature cleanup under tools/build 2021-03-06 16:54:24 -03:00
cgroup
debugging docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means 2020-12-08 10:53:58 -07:00
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: remove uAPI v1 code no longer used by selftests 2021-02-15 11:43:28 +01:00
hv
iio
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-03-09 18:07:05 -08:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: Exempt time-based counters 2020-12-11 19:18:51 -05:00
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Add BPF static linker BTF and BTF.ext support 2021-03-18 16:14:22 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Fix typo in klitmus7 compatibility table 2021-01-04 14:40:50 -08:00
objtool Rework of the X86 irq stack handling: 2021-02-24 16:32:23 -08:00
pci
pcmcia
perf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-03-09 18:07:05 -08:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v5.12-1 2021-02-22 08:50:01 -08:00
scripts New features: 2021-02-22 13:59:43 -08:00
spi
testing selftests/bpf: drop custom NULL #define in skb_pkt_end selftest 2021-03-17 18:48:05 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
tracing tracing/tools: fix a couple of spelling mistakes 2021-02-25 12:54:16 -05:00
usb
virtio tools/virtio: add barrier for aarch64 2020-12-18 16:14:30 -05:00
vm
wmi
Makefile tracing/tools: Add the latency-collector to tools directory 2021-02-12 11:52:59 -05:00