linux/tools/lib
Andrii Nakryiko 9af8efc45e libbpf: Allow "incomplete" basic tracing SEC() definitions
In a lot of cases the target of kprobe/kretprobe, tracepoint, raw
tracepoint, etc BPF program might not be known at the compilation time
and will be discovered at runtime. This was always a supported case by
libbpf, with APIs like bpf_program__attach_{kprobe,tracepoint,etc}()
accepting full target definition, regardless of what was defined in
SEC() definition in BPF source code.

Unfortunately, up till now libbpf still enforced users to specify at
least something for the fake target, e.g., SEC("kprobe/whatever"), which
is cumbersome and somewhat misleading.

This patch allows target-less SEC() definitions for basic tracing BPF
program types:

  - kprobe/kretprobe;
  - multi-kprobe/multi-kretprobe;
  - tracepoints;
  - raw tracepoints.

Such target-less SEC() definitions are meant to specify declaratively
proper BPF program type only. Attachment of them will have to be handled
programmatically using correct APIs. As such, skeleton's auto-attachment
of such BPF programs is skipped and generic bpf_program__attach() will
fail, if attempted, due to the lack of enough target information.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220428185349.3799599-2-andrii@kernel.org
2022-04-28 23:45:59 +02:00
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api Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
bpf libbpf: Allow "incomplete" basic tracing SEC() definitions 2022-04-28 23:45:59 +02:00
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 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
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 objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error 2018-03-19 13:51:54 -03:00
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