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From: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com>,
	quentin@isovalent.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, ast@kernel.org,
	andrii@kernel.org, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com,
	alan.maguire@oracle.com, memxor@gmail.com, martin.lau@linux.dev,
	eddyz87@gmail.com, song@kernel.org, yonghong.song@linux.dev,
	john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@google.com,
	haoluo@google.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: Support dumping kfunc prototypes from BTF
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:15:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZbiwJcfN6snXZ0Vn@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <spuzs32tv6v5czb76gstpvisv2xkfzz2scqw4hmqncflhxoj66@hie6m7pctfdo>

On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:13:13AM -0700, Daniel Xu wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 01:11:17PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 06:35:33PM -0700, Daniel Xu wrote:
> > > This patch enables dumping kfunc prototypes from bpftool. This is useful
> > > b/c with this patch, end users will no longer have to manually define
> > > kfunc prototypes. For the kernel tree, this also means we can drop
> > > kfunc prototypes from:
> > > 
> > >         tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_kfuncs.h
> > >         tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h
> > > 
> > > Example usage:
> > > 
> > >         $ make PAHOLE=/home/dxu/dev/pahole/build/pahole -j30 vmlinux
> > > 
> > >         $ ./tools/bpf/bpftool/bpftool btf dump file ./vmlinux format c | rg "__ksym;" | head -3
> > >         extern void cgroup_rstat_updated(struct cgroup * cgrp, int cpu) __ksym;
> > >         extern void cgroup_rstat_flush(struct cgroup * cgrp) __ksym;
> > >         extern struct bpf_key * bpf_lookup_user_key(u32 serial, u64 flags) __ksym;
> > 
> > hi,
> > I'm getting following declaration for bpf_rbtree_add_impl:
> > 
> > 	extern int bpf_rbtree_add_impl(struct bpf_rb_root * root, struct bpf_rb_node * node, bool (struct bpf_rb_node *, const struct bpf_rb_node *)* less, void * meta__ign, u64 off) __ksym; 
> > 
> > and it fails to compile with:
> > 
> > 	In file included from skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c:3:
> > 	./vmlinux.h:164511:141: error: expected ')'
> > 	 164511 | extern int bpf_rbtree_add_impl(struct bpf_rb_root * root, struct bpf_rb_node * node, bool (struct bpf_rb_node *, const struct bpf_rb_node *)* less, void * meta__ign, u64 off) __ksym;
> > 		|                                                                                                                                             ^
> > 	./vmlinux.h:164511:31: note: to match this '('
> > 	 164511 | extern int bpf_rbtree_add_impl(struct bpf_rb_root * root, struct bpf_rb_node * node, bool (struct bpf_rb_node *, const struct bpf_rb_node *)* less, void * meta__ign, u64 off) __ksym;
> > 
> > looks like the btf_dumper_type_only won't dump function pointer argument
> > properly.. I guess we should fix that, but looking at the other stuff in
> > vmlinux.h like *_ops struct we can print function pointers properly, so
> > perhaps another way around is to use btf_dumper interface instead
> 
> Ah, crap, looks like between all the branch switching I didn't build
> vmlinux with kfunc annotations. Having fixed that, I can repro this
> build failure.
> 
> I'll take a look and see what the best way to fix this is.
> 
> Given that end to end the whole flow basically works, should we start
> working on merging patches?

yes, the flow looks good to me.. will check the rest of the patches

jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-30  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-29  1:35 [PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: Support dumping kfunc prototypes from BTF Daniel Xu
2024-01-29 12:11 ` Jiri Olsa
2024-01-29 16:13   ` Daniel Xu
2024-01-30  8:15     ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2024-01-30  4:33 ` Andrii Nakryiko

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