Merge branch 'libbpf: deprecate bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear'
Dave Marchevsky says: ==================== bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear is a helper which wraps the bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd BPF syscall with some niceties that put all dynamic-length bpf_prog_info in one buffer contiguous with struct bpf_prog_info, and simplify the selection of which dynamic data to grab. The resultant combined struct, bpf_prog_info_linear, is persisted to file by 'perf' to enable later annotation of BPF prog data. libbpf includes some vaddr <-> offset conversion helpers for struct bpf_prog_info_linear to simplify this. This functionality is heavily tailored to perf's usecase, so its use as a general prog info API should be deemphasized in favor of just calling bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd, which can be more easily fit to purpose. Some examples from caller migrations in this series: * Some callers weren't requesting or using dynamic-sized prog info and are well served by a simple get_info_by_fd call (e.g. dump_prog_id_as_func_ptr in bpftool) * Some callers were requesting all of a specific dynamic info type but only using the first record, so can avoid unnecessary malloc by only requesting 1 (e.g. profile_target_name in bpftool) * bpftool's do_dump saves some malloc/free by growing and reusing its dynamic prog_info buf as it loops over progs to grab info and dump. Perf does need the full functionality of bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear and its accompanying structs + helpers, so copy the code to its codebase, migrate all other uses in the tree, and deprecate the helper in libbpf. Since the deprecated symbols continue to be included in perf some renaming was necessary in perf's copy, otherwise functionality is unchanged. This work was previously discussed in libbpf's issue tracker [0]. [0]: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/313 v2->v3: * Remove v2's patch 1 ("libbpf: Migrate internal use of bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear"), which was applied [Andrii] * Add new patch 1 migrating error checking of libbpf calls to new scheme [Andrii, Quentin] * In patch 2, fix != -1 error check of libbpf call, improper realloc handling, and get rid of confusing macros [Andrii] * In patch 4, deprecate starting from 0.6 instead of 0.7 [Andrii] v1->v2: fix bpftool do_dump changes to clear bpf_prog_info after use and correctly pass realloc'd ptr back (patch 2) ==================== Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
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