From: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
To: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>, andrii@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org,
yonghong.song@linux.dev, john.fastabend@gmail.com,
kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@fomichev.me, haoluo@google.com,
jolsa@kernel.org, qmo@kernel.org, ihor.solodrai@linux.dev,
dwarves@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org, ttreyer@meta.com,
mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 bpf-next 02/10] libbpf: Support kind layout section handling in BTF
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:58:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67984e4e-c747-4735-87e2-abe8f6865e69@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73e7a9185fa9de89513108a5ec2b545fa344d237.camel@gmail.com>
On 16/12/2025 06:01, Eduard Zingerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-12-15 at 09:17 +0000, Alan Maguire wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> @@ -951,7 +1018,8 @@ __s32 btf__find_by_name_kind(const struct btf *btf, const char *type_name,
>>
>> static bool btf_is_modifiable(const struct btf *btf)
>> {
>> - return (void *)btf->hdr != btf->raw_data;
>> + /* BTF is modifiable if split into multiple sections */
>> + return btf->modifiable;
>> }
>
> One more thought.
> If some kinds are not known to libbpf, BTF modifications are not safe,
> e.g. endianness swap will fail for non-native endianness and anything
> that depends on btf_field_iter will produce partial results.
> So, maybe forbid conversion to modifiable in such scenarios?
>
Good idea; and ack on the embedded header in struct btf. Thanks!
Alan
> [...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-16 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-15 9:17 [PATCH v8 bpf-next 00/10] Add kind layout to BTF Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 01/10] btf: add kind layout encoding to UAPI Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:38 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-12-16 19:23 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 13:15 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-19 17:53 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 18:13 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-19 18:19 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 18:22 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-20 0:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-22 8:58 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-22 19:03 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-12-23 11:09 ` Alan Maguire
2026-01-06 0:11 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2026-01-06 0:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-01-06 1:19 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2026-01-08 18:55 ` Alan Maguire
2026-01-09 1:24 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2026-01-09 1:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-01-09 13:20 ` Alan Maguire
2026-01-09 18:34 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2026-01-12 17:47 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 02/10] libbpf: Support kind layout section handling in BTF Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:38 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-12-15 16:03 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 0:08 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 6:01 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 14:58 ` Alan Maguire [this message]
2025-12-16 19:34 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 13:34 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-19 17:58 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 18:18 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-19 18:21 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 18:36 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-19 18:41 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-19 18:44 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 03/10] libbpf: use kind layout to compute an unknown kind size Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 6:07 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 15:00 ` Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 19:42 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 19:58 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 21:11 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 21:21 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 22:23 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 22:35 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 23:00 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 23:36 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-17 0:30 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-17 0:38 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 19:37 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 04/10] libbpf: Add kind layout encoding support Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 5:58 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 21:04 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 05/10] libbpf: BTF validation can use kind layout for unknown kinds Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 06/10] btf: support kernel parsing of BTF with kind layout Alan Maguire
2025-12-16 6:51 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 21:21 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 21:25 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-16 22:09 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2025-12-16 22:12 ` Eduard Zingerman
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 07/10] selftests/bpf: test kind encoding/decoding Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 08/10] bpftool: add BTF dump "format meta" to dump header/metadata Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:52 ` bot+bpf-ci
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 09/10] bpftool: Update doc to describe bpftool btf dump .. format metadata Alan Maguire
2025-12-15 9:17 ` [PATCH v8 bpf-next 10/10] kbuild, bpf: Specify "kind_layout" optional feature Alan Maguire
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