From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Networking <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, David Miller <davem@redhat.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
Wenbo Zhang <ethercflow@gmail.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@chromium.org>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>,
Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] bpf: Compile btfid tool at kernel compilation start
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:08:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAADnVQKWfRCLSUYSnnMRR6jQhF1MFCE+Xhcp30E_7uJd_Jr2sg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F126D92D-E9D8-4895-AA4E-717B553AC45A@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 5:47 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On June 18, 2020 9:40:32 PM GMT-03:00, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:06 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> The btfid tool will be used during the vmlinux linking,
> >> so it's necessary it's ready for it.
> >>
> >
> >Seeing troubles John runs into, I wonder if it maybe would be better
> >to add it to pahole instead? It's already a dependency for anything
> >BTF-related in the kernel. It has libelf, libbpf linked and set up.
> >WDYT? I've cc'ed Arnaldo as well for an opinion.
>
> I was reading this thread with a low prio, but my gut feeling was that yeah, since pahole is already there, why not have it do this?
>
> I'll try to look at this tomorrow and see if this is more than just a hunch.
I think it's better to keep it separate like Jiri did.
It is really vmlinux specific as far as I can see and can change in the future.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-19 2:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-16 10:05 [PATCHv3 0/9] bpf: Add d_path helper Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 01/11] bpf: Add btfid tool to resolve BTF IDs in ELF object Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 0:38 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:03 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 18:12 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-22 8:59 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 02/11] bpf: Compile btfid tool at kernel compilation start Jiri Olsa
2020-06-18 20:40 ` John Fastabend
2020-06-18 21:17 ` John Fastabend
2020-06-19 13:23 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 0:40 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 0:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2020-06-19 2:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2020-06-19 3:51 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 03/11] bpf: Add btf_ids object Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 0:56 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 1:06 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:16 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 13:13 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 18:15 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 1:02 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:05 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 04/11] bpf: Resolve BTF IDs in vmlinux image Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 05/11] bpf: Remove btf_id helpers resolving Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 1:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:18 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 06/11] bpf: Do not pass enum bpf_access_type to btf_struct_access Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 3:58 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:23 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 07/11] bpf: Allow nested BTF object to be refferenced by BTF object + offset Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 08/11] bpf: Add BTF whitelist support Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 4:29 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:29 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 09/11] bpf: Add d_path helper Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 4:35 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:31 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 18:25 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-22 9:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-22 19:18 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-23 10:02 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-23 18:58 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-23 20:14 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-23 20:17 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 10/11] selftests/bpf: Add verifier test for " Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 4:38 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:32 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-16 10:05 ` [PATCH 11/11] selftests/bpf: Add " Jiri Olsa
2020-06-19 4:44 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-06-19 13:34 ` Jiri Olsa
2020-06-18 20:57 ` [PATCHv3 0/9] bpf: Add " John Fastabend
2020-06-19 12:35 ` Jiri Olsa
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