Commit 00389c58 authored by Delyan Kratunov's avatar Delyan Kratunov Committed by Andrii Nakryiko

bpftool: Add support for subskeletons

Subskeletons are headers which require an already loaded program to
operate.

For example, when a BPF library is linked into a larger BPF object file,
the library userspace needs a way to access its own global variables
without requiring knowledge about the larger program at build time.

As a result, subskeletons require a loaded bpf_object to open().
Further, they find their own symbols in the larger program by
walking BTF type data at run time.

At this time, programs, maps, and globals are supported through
non-owning pointers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDelyan Kratunov <delyank@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ca8a48b4841c72d285ecce82371bef4a899756cb.1647473511.git.delyank@fb.com
parent 430025e5
......@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ GEN COMMANDS
| **bpftool** **gen object** *OUTPUT_FILE* *INPUT_FILE* [*INPUT_FILE*...]
| **bpftool** **gen skeleton** *FILE* [**name** *OBJECT_NAME*]
| **bpftool** **gen subskeleton** *FILE* [**name** *OBJECT_NAME*]
| **bpftool** **gen min_core_btf** *INPUT* *OUTPUT* *OBJECT* [*OBJECT*...]
| **bpftool** **gen help**
......@@ -150,6 +151,30 @@ DESCRIPTION
(non-read-only) data from userspace, with same simplicity
as for BPF side.
**bpftool gen subskeleton** *FILE*
Generate BPF subskeleton C header file for a given *FILE*.
Subskeletons are similar to skeletons, except they do not own
the corresponding maps, programs, or global variables. They
require that the object file used to generate them is already
loaded into a *bpf_object* by some other means.
This functionality is useful when a library is included into a
larger BPF program. A subskeleton for the library would have
access to all objects and globals defined in it, without
having to know about the larger program.
Consequently, there are only two functions defined
for subskeletons:
- **example__open(bpf_object\*)**
Instantiates a subskeleton from an already opened (but not
necessarily loaded) **bpf_object**.
- **example__destroy()**
Frees the storage for the subskeleton but *does not* unload
any BPF programs or maps.
**bpftool** **gen min_core_btf** *INPUT* *OUTPUT* *OBJECT* [*OBJECT*...]
Generate a minimum BTF file as *OUTPUT*, derived from a given
*INPUT* BTF file, containing all needed BTF types so one, or
......
......@@ -1003,13 +1003,25 @@ _bpftool()
;;
esac
;;
subskeleton)
case $prev in
$command)
_filedir
return 0
;;
*)
_bpftool_once_attr 'name'
return 0
;;
esac
;;
min_core_btf)
_filedir
return 0
;;
*)
[[ $prev == $object ]] && \
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'object skeleton help min_core_btf' -- "$cur" ) )
COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'object skeleton subskeleton help min_core_btf' -- "$cur" ) )
;;
esac
;;
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