kernel/linux.git/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c, branch v4.5.3

tools lib bpf: Fetch map names from correct strtab

2015-12-11T11:53:04+00:00

Namhyung Kim pointed out a potential problem in original code that it fetches names of maps from section header string table, which is used to store section names. Original code doesn't cause error because of a LLVM behavior that, it combines shstrtab into strtab. For example: $ echo 'int func() {return 0;}' | x86_64-oe-linux-clang -x c -o temp.o -c - $ readelf -h ./temp.o ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ... Section header string table index: 1 $ readelf -S ./temp.o There are 10 section headers, starting at offset 0x288: Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Address Offset Size EntSize Flags Link Info Align [ 0] NULL 0000000000000000 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0 0 0 [ 1] .strtab STRTAB 0000000000000000 00000230 0000000000000051 0000000000000000 0 0 1 ... $ readelf -p .strtab ./temp.o String dump of section '.strtab': [ 1] .text [ 7] .comment [ 10] .bss [ 15] .note.GNU-stack [ 25] .rela.eh_frame [ 34] func [ 39] .strtab [ 41] .symtab [ 49] .data [ 4f] - $ readelf -p .shstrtab ./temp.o readelf: Warning: Section '.shstrtab' was not dumped because it does not exist! Where, 'section header string table index' points to '.strtab', and symbol names are also stored there. However, in case of gcc: $ echo 'int func() {return 0;}' | gcc -x c -o temp.o -c - $ readelf -p .shstrtab ./temp.o String dump of section '.shstrtab': [ 1] .symtab [ 9] .strtab [ 11] .shstrtab [ 1b] .text [ 21] .data [ 27] .bss [ 2c] .comment [ 35] .note.GNU-stack [ 45] .rela.eh_frame $ readelf -p .strtab ./temp.o String dump of section '.strtab': [ 1] func They are separated sections. Although original code doesn't cause error, we'd better use canonical method for fetching symbol names to avoid potential behavior changing. This patch learns from readelf's code, fetches string from sh_link of .symbol section. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Reported-and-Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449541544-67621-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib bpf: Check return value of strdup when reading map names

2015-12-11T11:51:09+00:00

Commit 561bbccac72d08babafaa33fd7fa9100ec4c9fb6 ("tools lib bpf: Extract and collect map names from BPF object file") forgets checking return value of strdup(). This patch fixes it. It also checks names pointer before strcmp() for safety. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Fixes: 561bbccac72d ("tools lib bpf: Extract and collect map names from BPF object file") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449541544-67621-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib bpf: Extract and collect map names from BPF object file

2015-11-28T00:59:53+00:00

This patch collects name of maps in BPF object files and saves them into 'maps' field in 'struct bpf_object'. 'bpf_object__get_map_by_name' is introduced to retrive fd and definitions of a map through its name. Signed-off-by: He Kuang Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: He Kuang Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448614067-197576-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib bpf: Collect map definition in bpf_object

2015-11-28T00:57:09+00:00

This patch collects more information from maps sections in BPF object files into 'struct bpf_object', enables later patches access those information (such as the type and size of the map). In this patch, a new handler 'struct bpf_map' is extracted in parallel with bpf_object and bpf_program. Its iterator and accessor is also created. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448614067-197576-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

bpf tools: Load a program with different instances using preprocessor

2015-11-18T20:51:03+00:00

This patch is a preparation for BPF prologue support which allows generating a series of BPF bytecode for fetching kernel data before calling program code. With the newly introduced multiple instances support, perf is able to create different prologues for different kprobe points. Before this patch, a bpf_program can be loaded into kernel only once, and get the only resulting fd. What this patch does is to allow creating and loading different variants of one bpf_program, then fetching their fds. Here we describe the basic idea in this patch. The detailed description of the newly introduced APIs can be found in comments in the patch body. The key of this patch is the new mechanism in bpf_program__load(). Instead of loading BPF program into kernel directly, it calls a 'pre-processor' to generate program instances which would be finally loaded into the kernel based on the original code. To enable the generation of multiple instances, libbpf passes an index to the pre-processor so it know which instance is being loaded. Pre-processor should be called from libbpf's user (perf) using bpf_program__set_prep(). The number of instances and the relationship between indices and the target instance should be clear when calling bpf_program__set_prep(). To retrieve a fd for a specific instance of a program, bpf_program__nth_fd() is introduced. It returns the resulting fd according to index. Signed-off-by: He Kuang Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: He Kuang Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447675815-166222-8-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan [ Enclosed multi-line if/else blocks with {}, (*func_ptr)() -> func_ptr() ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

bpf tools: Add new API bpf_object__get_kversion()

2015-11-06T18:56:41+00:00

bpf_object__get_kversion() can be used to fetch value of object's 'version' section. Following patch will use it for error reporting. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446817783-86722-3-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

bpf tools: Improve libbpf error reporting

2015-11-06T18:52:41+00:00

In this patch, a series of libbpf specific error numbers and libbpf_strerror() are introduced to help reporting errors. Functions are updated to pass correct the error number through the CHECK_ERR() macro. All users of bpf_object__open{_buffer}() and bpf_program__title() in perf are modified accordingly. In addition, due to the error codes changing, bpf__strerror_load() is also modified to use them. bpf__strerror_head() is also changed accordingly so it can parse libbpf errors. bpf_loader_strerror() is introduced for that purpose, and will be improved by the following patch. load_program() is improved not to dump log buffer if it is empty. log buffer is also used to deduce whether the error was caused by an invalid program or other problem. v1 -> v2: - Using macro for error code. - Fetch error message based on array index, eliminate for-loop. - Use log buffer to detect the reason of failure. 3 new error code are introduced to replace LIBBPF_ERRNO__LOAD. In v1: # perf record -e ./test_ill_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_ill_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP # perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP # perf record -e ./test_big_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_big_program.o' \___ Failed to load program: Validate your program and check 'license'/'version' sections in your object SKIP In v2: # perf record -e ./test_ill_program.o ls event syntax error: './test_ill_program.o' \___ Kernel verifier blocks program loading SKIP # perf record -e ./test_kversion_nomatch_program.o event syntax error: './test_kversion_nomatch_program.o' \___ Incorrect kernel version SKIP (Will be further improved by following patches) # perf record -e ./test_big_program.o event syntax error: './test_big_program.o' \___ Program too big SKIP Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446817783-86722-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

tools lib bpf: Fix compiler warning on CentOS 6

2015-11-03T15:13:31+00:00

CC libbpf.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors libbpf.c: In function 'bpf_program__title': libbpf.c:1037: error: declaration of 'dup' shadows a global declaration /usr/include/unistd.h:528: error: shadowed declaration is here mv: cannot stat `./.libbpf.o.tmp': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [libbpf.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [libbpf-in.o] Error 2 make[1]: *** [/linux/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.a] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446549665-2342-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

bpf tools: New API to get name from a BPF object

2015-08-31T19:53:15+00:00

Before this patch there's no way to connect a loaded bpf object to its source file. However, during applying perf's '--filter' to BPF object, without this connection makes things harder, because perf loads all programs together, but '--filter' setting is for each object. The API of bpf_object__open_buffer() is changed to allow passing a name. Fortunately, at this time there's only one user of it (perf test LLVM), so we change it together. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: David Ahern Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440742821-44548-2-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

bpf tools: Link all bpf objects onto a list

2015-08-07T13:16:59+00:00

To allow enumeration of all bpf_objects, keep them in a list (hidden to caller). bpf_object__for_each_safe() is introduced to do this iteration. It is safe even user close the object during iteration. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Brendan Gregg Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: David Ahern Cc: He Kuang Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kaixu Xia Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Zefan Li Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435716878-189507-23-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo