From: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
To: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>,
Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] libbpf: add option to force-anonymize nested structs for BTF dump
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:34:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae6c6e50b3176d4ee4cce4cda09807a05d103fbf.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535846f7-4cc7-4b12-aab4-52e530d04706@oracle.com>
On Wed, 2025-12-17 at 18:41 +0000, Alan Maguire wrote:
[...]
> So maybe the best we can do here is something like the following at the top
> of vmlinux.h:
>
> #ifndef BPF_USE_MS_EXTENSIONS
> #if __has_builtin(__builtin_FUNCSIG) || defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS)
> #define BPF_USE_MS_EXTENSIONS
> #endif
> #endif
>
> ...and then guard using #ifdef BPF_USE_MS_EXTENSIONS
>
> That will work on clang and perhaps at some point work on gcc, but also
> gives the user the option to supply a macro to force use in cases where
> there is no detection available.
Are we sure we need such flexibility?
Maybe just stick with current implementation and unroll the structures
unconditionally?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-17 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-16 17:18 [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] Handle -fms-extension in kernel structs Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 17:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next 1/2] libbpf: add option to force-anonymize nested structs for BTF dump Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 19:00 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 19:08 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 19:46 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 16:06 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-17 16:12 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-17 17:06 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-17 17:33 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-17 17:52 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-17 18:41 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-17 19:34 ` Eduard Zingerman [this message]
2025-12-17 19:35 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 20:50 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-17 21:02 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-17 21:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-17 22:34 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 22:47 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 23:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-18 0:19 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-18 0:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-18 0:50 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 23:52 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-18 0:49 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 17:10 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 17:18 ` [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] bpftool: force-anonymize structs to avoid need for -fms-extension Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 19:20 ` [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] Handle -fms-extension in kernel structs Song Liu
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