Merge branch 'bpftool: Switch to new versioning scheme (align on libbpf's)'

Quentin Monnet says:

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Hi, this set aims at updating the way bpftool versions are numbered.
Instead of copying the version from the kernel (given that the sources for
the kernel and bpftool are shipped together), align it on libbpf's version
number, with a fixed offset (6) to avoid going backwards. Please refer to
the description of the second commit for details on the motivations.

The patchset also adds the number of the version of libbpf that was used to
compile to the output of "bpftool version". Bpftool makes such a heavy
usage of libbpf that it makes sense to indicate what version was used to
build it.

v3:
- Compute bpftool's version at compile time, but from the macros exposed by
  libbpf instead of calling a shell to compute $(BPFTOOL_VERSION) in the
  Makefile.
- Drop the commit which would add a "libbpfversion" target to libbpf's
  Makefile. This is no longer necessary.
- Use libbpf's major, minor versions with jsonw_printf() to avoid
  offsetting the version string to skip the "v" prefix.
- Reword documentation change.

v2:
- Align on libbpf's version number instead of creating an independent
  versioning scheme.
- Use libbpf_version_string() to retrieve and display libbpf's version.
- Re-order patches (1 <-> 2).
====================
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/common_options.rst

@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@
 	  Print short help message (similar to **bpftool help**).
 
 -V, --version
-	  Print version number (similar to **bpftool version**), and optional
-	  features that were included when bpftool was compiled. Optional
-	  features include linking against libbfd to provide the disassembler
-	  for JIT-ted programs (**bpftool prog dump jited**) and usage of BPF
-	  skeletons (some features like **bpftool prog profile** or showing
-	  pids associated to BPF objects may rely on it).
+	  Print bpftool's version number (similar to **bpftool version**), the
+	  number of the libbpf version in use, and optional features that were
+	  included when bpftool was compiled. Optional features include linking
+	  against libbfd to provide the disassembler for JIT-ted programs
+	  (**bpftool prog dump jited**) and usage of BPF skeletons (some
+	  features like **bpftool prog profile** or showing pids associated to
+	  BPF objects may rely on it).
 
 -j, --json
 	  Generate JSON output. For commands that cannot produce JSON, this

tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile

@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@ LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP := $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT)libbpf.a
 LIBBPF_INTERNAL_HDRS := $(addprefix $(LIBBPF_HDRS_DIR)/,hashmap.h nlattr.h)
 LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_INTERNAL_HDRS := $(addprefix $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_HDRS_DIR)/,hashmap.h)
 
-ifeq ($(BPFTOOL_VERSION),)
-BPFTOOL_VERSION := $(shell make -rR --no-print-directory -sC ../../.. kernelversion)
-endif
-
 $(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) $(BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT) $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_OUTPUT) $(LIBBPF_HDRS_DIR) $(LIBBPF_BOOTSTRAP_HDRS_DIR):
 	$(QUIET_MKDIR)mkdir -p $@
 
@@ -83,7 +79,9 @@ CFLAGS += -DPACKAGE='"bpftool"' -D__EXPORTED_HEADERS__ \
 	-I$(srctree)/kernel/bpf/ \
 	-I$(srctree)/tools/include \
 	-I$(srctree)/tools/include/uapi
+ifneq ($(BPFTOOL_VERSION),)
 CFLAGS += -DBPFTOOL_VERSION='"$(BPFTOOL_VERSION)"'
+endif
 ifneq ($(EXTRA_CFLAGS),)
 CFLAGS += $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
 endif

tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c

@@ -71,6 +71,17 @@ static int do_help(int argc, char **argv)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+#ifndef BPFTOOL_VERSION
+/* bpftool's major and minor version numbers are aligned on libbpf's. There is
+ * an offset of 6 for the version number, because bpftool's version was higher
+ * than libbpf's when we adopted this scheme. The patch number remains at 0
+ * for now. Set BPFTOOL_VERSION to override.
+ */
+#define BPFTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION (LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION + 6)
+#define BPFTOOL_MINOR_VERSION LIBBPF_MINOR_VERSION
+#define BPFTOOL_PATCH_VERSION 0
+#endif
+
 static int do_version(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 #ifdef HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
@@ -88,7 +99,15 @@ static int do_version(int argc, char **argv)
 		jsonw_start_object(json_wtr);	/* root object */
 
 		jsonw_name(json_wtr, "version");
+#ifdef BPFTOOL_VERSION
 		jsonw_printf(json_wtr, "\"%s\"", BPFTOOL_VERSION);
+#else
+		jsonw_printf(json_wtr, "\"%d.%d.%d\"", BPFTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION,
+			     BPFTOOL_MINOR_VERSION, BPFTOOL_PATCH_VERSION);
+#endif
+		jsonw_name(json_wtr, "libbpf_version");
+		jsonw_printf(json_wtr, "\"%d.%d\"",
+			     libbpf_major_version(), libbpf_minor_version());
 
 		jsonw_name(json_wtr, "features");
 		jsonw_start_object(json_wtr);	/* features */
@@ -101,7 +120,13 @@ static int do_version(int argc, char **argv)
 	} else {
 		unsigned int nb_features = 0;
 
+#ifdef BPFTOOL_VERSION
 		printf("%s v%s\n", bin_name, BPFTOOL_VERSION);
+#else
+		printf("%s v%d.%d.%d\n", bin_name, BPFTOOL_MAJOR_VERSION,
+		       BPFTOOL_MINOR_VERSION, BPFTOOL_PATCH_VERSION);
+#endif
+		printf("using libbpf %s\n", libbpf_version_string());
 		printf("features:");
 		if (has_libbfd) {
 			printf(" libbfd");