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Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== This patch set adds support for generating and deduplicating split BTF. This is an enhancement to the BTF, which allows to designate one BTF as the "base BTF" (e.g., vmlinux BTF), and one or more other BTFs as "split BTF" (e.g., kernel module BTF), which are building upon and extending base BTF with extra types and strings. Once loaded, split BTF appears as a single unified BTF superset of base BTF, with continuous and transparent numbering scheme. This allows all the existing users of BTF to work correctly and stay agnostic to the base/split BTFs composition. The only difference is in how to instantiate split BTF: it requires base BTF to be alread instantiated and passed to btf__new_xxx_split() or btf__parse_xxx_split() "constructors" explicitly. This split approach is necessary if we are to have a reasonably-sized kernel module BTFs. By deduping each kernel module's BTF individually, resulting module BTFs contain copies of a lot of kernel types that are already present in vmlinux BTF. Even those single copies result in a big BTF size bloat. On my kernel configuration with 700 modules built, non-split BTF approach results in 115MBs of BTFs across all modules. With split BTF deduplication approach, total size is down to 5.2MBs total, which is on part with vmlinux BTF (at around 4MBs). This seems reasonable and practical. As to why we'd need kernel module BTFs, that should be pretty obvious to anyone using BPF at this point, as it allows all the BTF-powered features to be used with kernel modules: tp_btf, fentry/fexit/fmod_ret, lsm, bpf_iter, etc. This patch set is a pre-requisite to adding split BTF support to pahole, which is a prerequisite to integrating split BTF into the Linux kernel build setup to generate BTF for kernel modules. The latter will come as a follow-up patch series once this series makes it to the libbpf and pahole makes use of it. Patch #4 introduces necessary basic support for split BTF into libbpf APIs. Patch #8 implements minimal changes to BTF dedup algorithm to allow deduplicating split BTFs. Patch #11 adds extra -B flag to bpftool to allow to specify the path to base BTF for cases when one wants to dump or inspect split BTF. All the rest are refactorings, clean ups, bug fixes and selftests. v1->v2: - addressed Song's feedback. ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
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