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    libbpf: Allow "incomplete" basic tracing SEC() definitions · 9af8efc4
    Andrii Nakryiko authored
    In a lot of cases the target of kprobe/kretprobe, tracepoint, raw
    tracepoint, etc BPF program might not be known at the compilation time
    and will be discovered at runtime. This was always a supported case by
    libbpf, with APIs like bpf_program__attach_{kprobe,tracepoint,etc}()
    accepting full target definition, regardless of what was defined in
    SEC() definition in BPF source code.
    
    Unfortunately, up till now libbpf still enforced users to specify at
    least something for the fake target, e.g., SEC("kprobe/whatever"), which
    is cumbersome and somewhat misleading.
    
    This patch allows target-less SEC() definitions for basic tracing BPF
    program types:
    
      - kprobe/kretprobe;
      - multi-kprobe/multi-kretprobe;
      - tracepoints;
      - raw tracepoints.
    
    Such target-less SEC() definitions are meant to specify declaratively
    proper BPF program type only. Attachment of them will have to be handled
    programmatically using correct APIs. As such, skeleton's auto-attachment
    of such BPF programs is skipped and generic bpf_program__attach() will
    fail, if attempted, due to the lack of enough target information.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220428185349.3799599-2-andrii@kernel.org
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