Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 00/10] BTF: BPF Type Format

[Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>]

On 04/19/2018 12:55 AM, Martin KaFai Lau wrote:
> This patch introduces BPF Type Format (BTF).
> 
> BTF (BPF Type Format) is the meta data format which describes
> the data types of BPF program/map.  Hence, it basically focus
> on the C programming language which the modern BPF is primary
> using.  The first use case is to provide a generic pretty print
> capability for a BPF map.
> 
> A modified pahole that can convert dwarf to BTF is here:
> https://github.com/iamkafai/pahole/tree/btf
> (Arnaldo, there is some BTF_KIND numbering changes on
>  Apr 18th, d61426c1571)
> 
> Please see individual patch for details.
> 
> v5:
> - Remove BTF_KIND_FLOAT and BTF_KIND_FUNC which are not
>   currently used.  They can be added in the future.
>   Some bpf_df_xxx() are removed together.
> - Add comment in patch 7 to clarify that the new bpffs_map_fops
>   should not be extended further.
> 
> v4:
> - Fix warning (remove unneeded semicolon)
> - Remove a redundant variable (nr_bytes) from btf_int_check_meta() in
>   patch 1.  Caught by W=1.
> 
> v3:
> - Rebase to bpf-next
> - Fix sparse warning (by adding static)
> - Add BTF header logging: btf_verifier_log_hdr()
> - Fix the alignment test on btf->type_off
> - Add tests for the BTF header
> - Lower the max BTF size to 16MB.  It should be enough
>   for some time.  We could raise it later if it would
>   be needed.
> 
> v2:
> - Use kvfree where needed in patch 1 and 2
> - Also consider BTF_INT_OFFSET() in the btf_int_check_meta()
>   in patch 1
> - Fix an incorrect goto target in map_create() during
>   the btf-error-path in patch 7
> - re-org some local vars to keep the rev xmas tree in btf.c

Series applied to bpf-next, thanks Martin. As discussed please follow up
with the bpftool patches.

Thanks,
Daniel