From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ast@fb.com,
daniel@iogearbox.net
Cc: andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com, kernel-team@fb.com,
Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: support libbpf-provided extern variables
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 13:50:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a77vcbqt.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191214014710.3449601-3-andriin@fb.com>
[...]
> +static bool sym_is_extern(const GElf_Sym *sym)
> +{
> + int bind = GELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info);
> + /* externs are symbols w/ type=NOTYPE, bind=GLOBAL|WEAK, section=UND */
> + return sym->st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF &&
> + (bind == STB_GLOBAL || bind == STB_WEAK) &&
> + GELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_NOTYPE;
> +}
Will this also match function declarations marked as extern? I've
started looking into how to handle this for the static/dynamic linking
use cases and am wondering whether it makes sense to pull in this series
and build on that?
-Toke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-14 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-14 1:47 [PATCH v4 bpf-next 0/4] Add libbpf-provided extern variables support Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-14 1:47 ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 1/4] libbpf: extract internal map names into constants Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-14 1:47 ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 2/4] libbpf: support libbpf-provided extern variables Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-14 12:50 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [this message]
2019-12-14 20:27 ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-16 11:17 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-12-16 19:29 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-17 14:42 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-12-17 19:03 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-17 19:50 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-12-17 20:16 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-12-17 23:37 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-12-18 0:08 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-16 12:43 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-12-16 18:19 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-14 1:47 ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 3/4] bpftool: generate externs datasec in BPF skeleton Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-14 1:47 ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 4/4] selftests/bpf: add tests for libbpf-provided externs Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-16 0:52 ` [PATCH v4 bpf-next 0/4] Add libbpf-provided extern variables support Alexei Starovoitov
2019-12-16 1:47 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-16 4:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-12-16 19:34 ` Andrii Nakryiko
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