ANNOUNCE: pahole v1.27 (reproducible builds, BTF kfuncs)

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-06-11T21:26:56Z

Hi,

The v1.27 release of pahole and its friends is out, supporting
parallel reproducible builds and encoding kernel kfuncs in BTF, allowing
tools such as bpftrace to enumerate the available kfuncs and obtain its
function signatures and return types.

Main git repo:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git

Mirror git repo:

https://github.com/acmel/dwarves.git

tarball + gpg signature:

https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/dwarves-1.27.tar.xz
https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/dwarves-1.27.tar.bz2
https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves/dwarves-1.27.tar.sign

Thanks a lot to all the contributors and distro packagers, you're on the
CC list, I appreciate a lot the work you put into these tools,

Best Regards,

- Arnaldo

BTF encoder:

- Inject kfunc decl tags into BTF from the BTF IDs ELF section in the Linux
kernel vmlinux file.

This allows tools such as bpftools and pfunct to enumerate the available kfuncs
and to gets its function signature, the type of its return and of its
arguments. See the example in the BTF loader changes description, below.

- Support parallel reproducible builds, where it doesn't matter how many
threads are used, the end BTF encoding result is the same.

- Sanitize unsupported DWARF int type with greater-than-16 byte, as BTF doesn't
support it.

BTF loader:

- Initial support for BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG:

$ pfunct --prototypes -F btf vmlinux.btf.decl_tag,decl_tag_kfuncs | grep ^bpf_kfunc | head
bpf_kfunc void cubictcp_init(struct sock * sk);
bpf_kfunc void cubictcp_cwnd_event(struct sock * sk, enum tcp_ca_event event);
bpf_kfunc void cubictcp_cong_avoid(struct sock * sk, u32 ack, u32 acked);
bpf_kfunc u32 cubictcp_recalc_ssthresh(struct sock * sk);
bpf_kfunc void cubictcp_state(struct sock * sk, u8 new_state);
bpf_kfunc void cubictcp_acked(struct sock * sk, const struct ack_sample * sample);
bpf_kfunc int bpf_iter_css_new(struct bpf_iter_css * it, struct cgroup_subsys_state * start, unsigned int flags);
bpf_kfunc struct cgroup_subsys_state * bpf_iter_css_next(struct bpf_iter_css * it);
bpf_kfunc void bpf_iter_css_destroy(struct bpf_iter_css * it);
bpf_kfunc s64 bpf_map_sum_elem_count(const struct bpf_map * map);
$ pfunct --prototypes -F btf vmlinux.btf.decl_tag,decl_tag_kfuncs | grep ^bpf_kfunc | wc -l
116
$

pretty printing:

- Fix hole discovery with inheritance in C++.