Commit e5e23424 authored by Indu Bhagat's avatar Indu Bhagat Committed by Alexei Starovoitov

docs/bpf: Update documentation for BTF_KIND_FUNC

The vlen bits in the BTF type of kind BTF_KIND_FUNC are used to convey the
linkage information for functions. The Linux kernel only supports
linkage values of BTF_FUNC_STATIC and BTF_FUNC_GLOBAL at this time.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIndu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714223310.1140097-1-indu.bhagat@oracle.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent 3908fcdd
...@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ No additional type data follow ``btf_type``. ...@@ -369,7 +369,8 @@ No additional type data follow ``btf_type``.
* ``name_off``: offset to a valid C identifier * ``name_off``: offset to a valid C identifier
* ``info.kind_flag``: 0 * ``info.kind_flag``: 0
* ``info.kind``: BTF_KIND_FUNC * ``info.kind``: BTF_KIND_FUNC
* ``info.vlen``: 0 * ``info.vlen``: linkage information (BTF_FUNC_STATIC, BTF_FUNC_GLOBAL
or BTF_FUNC_EXTERN)
* ``type``: a BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO type * ``type``: a BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO type
No additional type data follow ``btf_type``. No additional type data follow ``btf_type``.
...@@ -380,6 +381,9 @@ type. The BTF_KIND_FUNC may in turn be referenced by a func_info in the ...@@ -380,6 +381,9 @@ type. The BTF_KIND_FUNC may in turn be referenced by a func_info in the
:ref:`BTF_Ext_Section` (ELF) or in the arguments to :ref:`BPF_Prog_Load` :ref:`BTF_Ext_Section` (ELF) or in the arguments to :ref:`BPF_Prog_Load`
(ABI). (ABI).
Currently, only linkage values of BTF_FUNC_STATIC and BTF_FUNC_GLOBAL are
supported in the kernel.
2.2.13 BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO 2.2.13 BTF_KIND_FUNC_PROTO
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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