linux/tools
Andrii Nakryiko faf6ed321c libbpf: Add BPF static linker APIs
Introduce BPF static linker APIs to libbpf. BPF static linker allows to
perform static linking of multiple BPF object files into a single combined
resulting object file, preserving all the BPF programs, maps, global
variables, etc.

Data sections (.bss, .data, .rodata, .maps, maps, etc) with the same name are
concatenated together. Similarly, code sections are also concatenated. All the
symbols and ELF relocations are also concatenated in their respective ELF
sections and are adjusted accordingly to the new object file layout.

Static variables and functions are handled correctly as well, adjusting BPF
instructions offsets to reflect new variable/function offset within the
combined ELF section. Such relocations are referencing STT_SECTION symbols and
that stays intact.

Data sections in different files can have different alignment requirements, so
that is taken care of as well, adjusting sizes and offsets as necessary to
satisfy both old and new alignment requirements.

DWARF data sections are stripped out, currently. As well as LLLVM_ADDRSIG
section, which is ignored by libbpf in bpf_object__open() anyways. So, in
a way, BPF static linker is an analogue to `llvm-strip -g`, which is a pretty
nice property, especially if resulting .o file is then used to generate BPF
skeleton.

Original string sections are ignored and instead we construct our own set of
unique strings using libbpf-internal `struct strset` API.

To reduce the size of the patch, all the .BTF and .BTF.ext processing was
moved into a separate patch.

The high-level API consists of just 4 functions:
  - bpf_linker__new() creates an instance of BPF static linker. It accepts
    output filename and (currently empty) options struct;
  - bpf_linker__add_file() takes input filename and appends it to the already
    processed ELF data; it can be called multiple times, one for each BPF
    ELF object file that needs to be linked in;
  - bpf_linker__finalize() needs to be called to dump final ELF contents into
    the output file, specified when bpf_linker was created; after
    bpf_linker__finalize() is called, no more bpf_linker__add_file() and
    bpf_linker__finalize() calls are allowed, they will return error;
  - regardless of whether bpf_linker__finalize() was called or not,
    bpf_linker__free() will free up all the used resources.

Currently, BPF static linker doesn't resolve cross-object file references
(extern variables and/or functions). This will be added in the follow up patch
set.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-7-andrii@kernel.org
2021-03-18 16:14:22 -07:00
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