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* [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] Add new-style bpf_object__open APIs
@ 2019-10-04  3:00 Andrii Nakryiko
  2019-10-04  3:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] libbpf: stop enforcing kern_version, populate it for users Andrii Nakryiko
  2019-10-04  3:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] libbpf: add bpf_object__open_{file,mem} w/ extensible opts Andrii Nakryiko
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Andrii Nakryiko @ 2019-10-04  3:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bpf, netdev, ast, daniel; +Cc: andrii.nakryiko, kernel-team, Andrii Nakryiko

Add bpf_object__open_file() and bpf_object__open_mem() APIs that use a new
approach to providing future-proof non-ABI-breaking API changes. It relies on
APIs accepting optional self-describing "opts" struct, containing its own
size, filled out and provided by potentially outdated (as well as
newer-than-libbpf) user application. A set of internal helper macros
(OPTS_VALID, OPTS_HAS, and OPTS_GET) streamline and simplify a graceful
handling forward and backward compatibility for user applications dynamically
linked against different versions of libbpf shared library.

Users of libbpf are provided with convenience macro LIBBPF_OPTS that takes
care of populating correct structure size and zero-initializes options struct,
which helps avoid obscure issues of unitialized padding. Uninitialized padding
in a struct might turn into garbage-populated new fields understood by future
versions of libbpf.

Andrii Nakryiko (2):
  libbpf: stop enforcing kern_version, populate it for users
  libbpf: add bpf_object__open_{file,mem} w/ extensible opts

 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c                        | 128 +++++++++---------
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h                        |  37 ++++-
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map                      |   3 +
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_internal.h               |  31 +++++
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_attach_probe.c   |   1 -
 .../bpf/progs/test_get_stack_rawtp.c          |   1 -
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_perf_buffer.c    |   1 -
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_stacktrace_map.c |   1 -
 8 files changed, 131 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)

-- 
2.17.1


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2019-10-04 14:05   ` John Fastabend
2019-10-04 14:32     ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-04 14:36       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-04 14:55         ` John Fastabend
2019-10-04 15:07         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-04 15:59           ` John Fastabend
2019-10-18 14:49             ` John Fastabend
2019-10-04  3:00 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] libbpf: add bpf_object__open_{file,mem} w/ extensible opts Andrii Nakryiko

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