libbpf: Per-symbol visibility for DSO
Make global symbols in libbpf DSO hidden by default with -fvisibility=hidden and export symbols that are part of ABI explicitly with __attribute__((visibility("default"))). This is common practice that should prevent from accidentally exporting a symbol, that is not supposed to be a part of ABI what, in turn, improves both libbpf developer- and user-experiences. See [1] for more details. Export control becomes more important since more and more projects use libbpf. The patch doesn't export a bunch of netlink related functions since as agreed in [2] they'll be reworked. That doesn't break bpftool since bpftool links libbpf statically. [1] https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf (2.2 Export Control) [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg251434.html Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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