From: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
To: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>,
Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v3] bpftool: Allow to link libbpf dynamically
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 17:30:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04154e60-a5d6-5ce5-2fbe-89437108fdc6@netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191128160712.1048793-1-toke@redhat.com>
2019-11-28 17:07 UTC+0100 ~ Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
>
> Currently we support only static linking with kernel's libbpf
> (tools/lib/bpf). This patch adds LIBBPF_DYNAMIC compile variable
> that triggers libbpf detection and bpf dynamic linking:
>
> $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool make LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1
>
> If libbpf is not installed, build (with LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1) stops with:
>
> $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1
> Auto-detecting system features:
> ... libbfd: [ on ]
> ... disassembler-four-args: [ on ]
> ... zlib: [ on ]
> ... libbpf: [ OFF ]
>
> Makefile:102: *** Error: No libbpf devel library found, please install libbpf-devel or libbpf-dev.
>
> Adding LIBBPF_DIR compile variable to allow linking with
> libbpf installed into specific directory:
>
> $ make -C tools/lib/bpf/ prefix=/tmp/libbpf/ install_lib install_headers
> $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ LIBBPF_DYNAMIC=1 LIBBPF_DIR=/tmp/libbpf/
>
> It might be needed to clean build tree first because features
> framework does not detect the change properly:
>
> $ make -C tools/build/feature clean
> $ make -C tools/bpf/bpftool/ clean
>
> Since bpftool uses bits of libbpf that are not exported as public API in
> the .so version, we also pass in libbpf.a to the linker, which allows it to
> pick up the private functions from the static library without having to
> expose them as ABI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - Keep $(LIBBPF) in $LIBS, and just add -lbpf on top
> - Fix typo in error message
> v2:
> - Pass .a file to linker when dynamically linking, so bpftool can use
> private functions from libbpf without exposing them as API.
Thanks for the changes!
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-28 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-27 9:48 [PATCH 0/3] perf/bpftool: Allow to link libbpf dynamically Jiri Olsa
2019-11-27 9:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Allow to specify libbpf install directory Jiri Olsa
2019-11-27 9:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] libbpf: Export netlink functions used by bpftool Jiri Olsa
2019-11-27 9:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] bpftool: Allow to link libbpf dynamically Jiri Olsa
2019-11-27 13:38 ` Quentin Monnet
2019-11-27 14:15 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-11-27 14:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-11-27 14:31 ` Quentin Monnet
2019-11-27 15:48 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-11-27 15:52 ` Quentin Monnet
2019-11-27 15:59 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-11-27 14:29 ` Quentin Monnet
2019-11-27 16:41 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-11-27 16:37 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf/bpftool: " Alexei Starovoitov
2019-11-27 18:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-11-27 20:24 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-11-27 21:22 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-11-27 22:47 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-11-28 9:06 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-28 14:53 ` [PATCH bpf v2] bpftool: " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-28 15:32 ` Quentin Monnet
2019-11-28 15:52 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-28 16:07 ` [PATCH bpf v3] " Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-28 17:30 ` Quentin Monnet [this message]
2019-11-29 8:12 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-11-29 8:24 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-29 10:24 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-11-29 14:00 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-11-29 23:56 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-12-02 8:59 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-12-02 17:09 ` [PATCH 0/3] perf/bpftool: " Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-02 18:08 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-12-02 18:42 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-02 18:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2019-12-02 19:21 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-12-02 19:54 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-02 20:02 ` Jiri Olsa
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