linux/tools
Andrey Ignatov 956b620fcf libbpf: Introduce libbpf_attach_type_by_name
There is a common use-case when ELF object contains multiple BPF
programs and every program has its own section name. If it's cgroup-bpf
then programs have to be 1) loaded and 2) attached to a cgroup.

It's convenient to have information necessary to load BPF program
together with program itself. This is where section name works fine in
conjunction with libbpf_prog_type_by_name that identifies prog_type and
expected_attach_type and these can be used with BPF_PROG_LOAD.

But there is currently no way to identify attach_type by section name
and it leads to messy code in user space that reinvents guessing logic
every time it has to identify attach type to use with BPF_PROG_ATTACH.

The patch introduces libbpf_attach_type_by_name that guesses attach type
by section name if a program can be attached.

The difference between expected_attach_type provided by
libbpf_prog_type_by_name and attach_type provided by
libbpf_attach_type_by_name is the former is used at BPF_PROG_LOAD time
and can be zero if a program of prog_type X has only one corresponding
attach type Y whether the latter provides specific attach type to use
with BPF_PROG_ATTACH.

No new section names were added to section_names array. Only existing
ones were reorganized and attach_type was added where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-09-27 21:14:59 +02:00
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arch tools headers uapi: Update tools's copies of kvm headers 2018-09-11 13:09:26 -03:00
bpf bpftool: Fix bpftool net output 2018-09-27 21:07:44 +02:00
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hv Tools: hv: Fix a bug in the key delete code 2018-09-12 09:31:00 +02:00
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kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: re-animate display of dead guests 2018-08-30 17:15:12 +02:00
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lib libbpf: Introduce libbpf_attach_type_by_name 2018-09-27 21:14:59 +02:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Rename litmus tests to comply to norm7 2018-07-17 09:30:36 +02:00
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pci tools: PCI: Add MSI-X support 2018-07-19 11:47:13 +01:00
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perf perf Documentation: Fix out-of-tree asciidoctor man page generation 2018-09-18 10:17:16 -03:00
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virtio tools/virtio: add kmalloc_array stub 2018-07-27 16:54:40 +03:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: fix "defined but not used" warning 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
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