libbpf: Support BTF loading and raw data output in both endianness
Teach BTF to recognized wrong endianness and transparently convert it internally to host endianness. Original endianness of BTF will be preserved and used during btf__get_raw_data() to convert resulting raw data to the same endianness and a source raw_data. This means that little-endian host can parse big-endian BTF with no issues, all the type data will be presented to the client application in native endianness, but when it's time for emitting BTF to persist it in a file (e.g., after BTF deduplication), original non-native endianness will be preserved and stored. It's possible to query original endianness of BTF data with new btf__endianness() API. It's also possible to override desired output endianness with btf__set_endianness(), so that if application needs to load, say, big-endian BTF and store it as little-endian BTF, it's possible to manually override this. If btf__set_endianness() was used to change endianness, btf__endianness() will reflect overridden endianness. Given there are no known use cases for supporting cross-endianness for .BTF.ext, loading .BTF.ext in non-native endianness is not supported. Signed-off-by:Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929043046.1324350-3-andriin@fb.com
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