Merge branch 'libbpf-side-__arg_ctx-fallback-support'
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== Libbpf-side __arg_ctx fallback support Support __arg_ctx global function argument tag semantics even on older kernels that don't natively support it through btf_decl_tag("arg:ctx"). Patches #2-#6 are preparatory work to allow to postpone BTF loading into the kernel until after all the BPF program relocations (including global func appending to main programs) are done. Patch #4 is perhaps the most important and establishes pre-created stable placeholder FDs, so that relocations can embed valid map FDs into ldimm64 instructions. Once BTF is done after relocation, what's left is to adjust BTF information to have each main program's copy of each used global subprog to point to its own adjusted FUNC -> FUNC_PROTO type chain (if they use __arg_ctx) in such a way as to satisfy type expectations of BPF verifier regarding the PTR_TO_CTX argument definition. See patch #8 for details. Patch #8 adds few more __arg_ctx use cases (edge cases like multiple arguments having __arg_ctx, etc) to test_global_func_ctx_args.c, to make it simple to validate that this logic indeed works on old kernels. It does. But just to be 100% sure patch #9 adds a test validating that libbpf uploads func_info with properly modified BTF data. v2->v3: - drop renaming patch (Alexei, Eduard); - use memfd_create() instead of /dev/null for placeholder FD (Eduard); - add one more test for validating BTF rewrite logic (Eduard); - fixed wrong -errno usage, reshuffled some BTF rewrite bits (Eduard); v1->v2: - do internal functions renaming in patch #1 (Alexei); - extract cloning of FUNC -> FUNC_PROTO information into separate function (Alexei); ==================== Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240104013847.3875810-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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