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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


  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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