Merge branch 'type-and-enum-value-relos'
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== This patch set adds libbpf support for two new classes of CO-RE relocations: type-based (TYPE_EXISTS/TYPE_SIZE/TYPE_ID_LOCAL/TYPE_ID_TARGET) and enum value-vased (ENUMVAL_EXISTS/ENUMVAL_VALUE): - TYPE_EXISTS allows to detect presence in kernel BTF of a locally-recorded BTF type. Useful for feature detection (new functionality often comes with new internal kernel types), as well as handling type renames and bigger refactorings. - TYPE_SIZE allows to get the real size (in bytes) of a specified kernel type. Useful for dumping internal structure as-is through perfbuf or ringbuf. - TYPE_ID_LOCAL/TYPE_ID_TARGET allow to capture BTF type ID of a BTF type in program's BTF or kernel BTF, respectively. These could be used for high-performance and space-efficient generic data dumping/logging by relying on small and cheap BTF type ID as a data layout descriptor, for post-processing on user-space side. - ENUMVAL_EXISTS can be used for detecting the presence of enumerator value in kernel's enum type. Most direct application is to detect BPF helper support in kernel. - ENUMVAL_VALUE allows to relocate real integer value of kernel enumerator value, which is subject to change (e.g., always a potential issue for internal, non-UAPI, kernel enums). I've indicated potential applications for these relocations, but relocations themselves are generic and unassuming and are designed to work correctly even in unintended applications. Furthermore, relocated values become constants, known to the verifier and could and would be used for dead branch code detection and elimination. This makes them ideal to do all sorts of feature detection and guarding functionality that's not available on some older (but still supported by BPF program) kernels, while having to compile and maintain one unified source code. Selftests are added for all the new features. Selftests utilizing new Clang built-ins are designed such that they will compile with older Clangs and will be skipped during test runs. So this shouldn't cause any build and test failures on systems with slightly outdated Clang compiler. LLVM patches adding these relocation in Clang: - __builtin_btf_type_id() ([0], [1], [2]); - __builtin_preserve_type_info(), __builtin_preserve_enum_value() ([3], [4]). [0] https://reviews.llvm.org/D74572 [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D74668 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D85174 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D83878 [4] https://reviews.llvm.org/D83242 v2->v3: - fix feature detection for __builtin_btf_type_id() test (Yonghong); - fix extra empty lines at the end of files (Yonghong); v1->v2: - selftests detect built-in support and are skipped if not found (Alexei). ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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