1. 03 May, 2024 1 commit
    • Jose E. Marchesi's avatar
      libbpf: Fix bpf_ksym_exists() in GCC · cf9bea94
      Jose E. Marchesi authored
      The macro bpf_ksym_exists is defined in bpf_helpers.h as:
      
        #define bpf_ksym_exists(sym) ({								\
        	_Static_assert(!__builtin_constant_p(!!sym), #sym " should be marked as __weak");	\
        	!!sym;											\
        })
      
      The purpose of the macro is to determine whether a given symbol has
      been defined, given the address of the object associated with the
      symbol.  It also has a compile-time check to make sure the object
      whose address is passed to the macro has been declared as weak, which
      makes the check on `sym' meaningful.
      
      As it happens, the check for weak doesn't work in GCC in all cases,
      because __builtin_constant_p not always folds at parse time when
      optimizing.  This is because optimizations that happen later in the
      compilation process, like inlining, may make a previously non-constant
      expression a constant.  This results in errors like the following when
      building the selftests with GCC:
      
        bpf_helpers.h:190:24: error: expression in static assertion is not constant
        190 |         _Static_assert(!__builtin_constant_p(!!sym), #sym " should be marked as __weak");       \
            |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      
      Fortunately recent versions of GCC support a __builtin_has_attribute
      that can be used to directly check for the __weak__ attribute.  This
      patch changes bpf_helpers.h to use that builtin when building with a
      recent enough GCC, and to omit the check if GCC is too old to support
      the builtin.
      
      The macro used for GCC becomes:
      
        #define bpf_ksym_exists(sym) ({									\
      	_Static_assert(__builtin_has_attribute (*sym, __weak__), #sym " should be marked as __weak");	\
      	!!sym;												\
        })
      
      Note that since bpf_ksym_exists is designed to get the address of the
      object associated with symbol SYM, we pass *sym to
      __builtin_has_attribute instead of sym.  When an expression is passed
      to __builtin_has_attribute then it is the type of the passed
      expression that is checked for the specified attribute.  The
      expression itself is not evaluated.  This accommodates well with the
      existing usages of the macro:
      
      - For function objects:
      
        struct task_struct *bpf_task_acquire(struct task_struct *p) __ksym __weak;
        [...]
        bpf_ksym_exists(bpf_task_acquire)
      
      - For variable objects:
      
        extern const struct rq runqueues __ksym __weak; /* typed */
        [...]
        bpf_ksym_exists(&runqueues)
      
      Note also that BPF support was added in GCC 10 and support for
      __builtin_has_attribute in GCC 9.
      
      Locally tested in bpf-next master branch.
      No regressions.
      Signed-of-by: default avatarJose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240428112559.10518-1-jose.marchesi@oracle.com
      cf9bea94
  2. 02 May, 2024 16 commits
  3. 01 May, 2024 6 commits
  4. 30 Apr, 2024 14 commits
  5. 29 Apr, 2024 3 commits