• Andrii Nakryiko's avatar
    btf: separate btf creation and loading · d29d87f7
    Andrii Nakryiko authored
    This change splits out previous btf__new functionality of constructing
    struct btf and loading it into kernel into two:
    - btf__new() just creates and initializes struct btf
    - btf__load() attempts to load existing struct btf into kernel
    
    btf__free will still close BTF fd, if it was ever loaded successfully
    into kernel.
    
    This change allows users of libbpf to manipulate BTF using its API,
    without the need to unnecessarily load it into kernel.
    
    One of the intended use cases is pahole, which will do DWARF to BTF
    conversion and then use libbpf to do type deduplication, while then
    handling ELF sections overwriting and other concerns on its own.
    
    Fixes: 2d3feca8 ("bpf: btf: print map dump and lookup with btf info")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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