From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
"bpf@vger.kernel.org" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"daniel@iogearbox.net" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 3/3] libbpf: auto-generate list of BPF helper definitions
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 11:24:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEf4BzZdhBTovTfv+Ar0En__RmuP6Lr=RWF2ix3uo9hZ84oHcg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b0df96f6-dc41-8baf-baa3-e98da94c54b7@fb.com>
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 10:10 AM Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/5/19 12:59 AM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > Get rid of list of BPF helpers in bpf_helpers.h (irony...) and
> > auto-generate it into bpf_helpers_defs.h, which is now included from
> > bpf_helpers.h.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov<ast@fb.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko<andriin@fb.com>
> > ---
> > tools/lib/bpf/Makefile | 8 +-
> > tools/lib/bpf/bpf_helpers.h | 264 +--
> > tools/lib/bpf/bpf_helpers_defs.h | 2677 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 2685 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 tools/lib/bpf/bpf_helpers_defs.h
>
> Approach looks good to me.
> imo that's better than messing with macros.
>
> Using bpf_helpers_doc.py as part of build will help man pages too.
> I think we were sloppy documenting helpers, since only Quentin
> was running that script regularly.
Yep, I agree, I had to fix few things, as well as (char *) vs (void *)
vs (__u8 *) differences were causing some extra warnings.
Please check the list of type translations whether they make sense.
>
> Only question is what is the reason to commit generated .h into git?
So originally I didn't want to depend on system UAPI headers during
Github build. But now I recalled that we do have latest UAPI synced
into Github's include/ subdir, so that's not an obstacle really. We'll
just need to re-license bpf_helpers_doc.py (I don't think Quentin will
mind) and start syncing it to Github (not a big deal at all).
There is still a benefit in having it checked in: easy to spot if
script does something wrong and double-check the changes (after
initial big commit, of course).
If you think that's not reason enough, let me know and I can drop it in v2.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-05 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-05 7:59 [PATCH bpf-next 0/3] Auto-generate list of BPF helpers Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-05 7:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/3] uapi/bpf: fix helper docs Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-05 7:59 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/3] scripts/bpf: teach bpf_helpers_doc.py to dump BPF helper definitions Andrii Nakryiko
[not found] ` <20191005075921.3310139-4-andriin@fb.com>
2019-10-05 17:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next 3/3] libbpf: auto-generate list of " Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-05 18:24 ` Andrii Nakryiko [this message]
2019-10-06 1:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-06 2:29 ` Andrii Nakryiko
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