Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/3] libbpf: add bpf_object__load_xattr() API function to pass log_level

[Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>]

2019-05-23 16:29 UTC+0000 ~ Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
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> On 5/23/19 9:19 AM, Yonghong Song wrote:
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>> On 5/23/19 3:54 AM, Quentin Monnet wrote:
>>> libbpf was recently made aware of the log_level attribute for programs,
>>> used to specify the level of information expected to be dumped by the
>>> verifier.
>>>
>>> Create an API function to pass additional attributes when loading a
>>> bpf_object, so we can set this log_level value in programs when loading
>>> them, and so that so that applications relying on libbpf but not calling
>> "so that so that" => "so that"

Oh, thanks!

>>> bpf_prog_load_xattr() can also use that feature.
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>> Do not fully understand the above statement. From the code below,
>> I did not see how the non-zero log_level can be set for bpf_program
>> without bpf_prog_load_xattr(). Maybe I miss something?

bpf_prog_load_xattr() already had support for passing a log_level, it
was added by Alexei when he made libbpf aware of the different log
levels (commit da11b417583e). But bpftool does not rely on
bpf_prog_load_xattr(), it loads programs with bpf_object__load(), that
offered no way pass a log_level parameter. Does that help?

> 
> Looks like next patch uses it when -d is specified.

It uses the new bpf_object__load_xattr() function introduced in this
patch indeed.

> Probably commit message can be made more clear.

Yeah, probably. I'll improve it and submit a v3.

Thanks!
Quentin