bpftool: Add LLVM as default library for disassembling JIT-ed programs

To disassemble instructions for JIT-ed programs, bpftool has relied on
the libbfd library. This has been problematic in the past: libbfd's
interface is not meant to be stable and has changed several times. For
building bpftool, we have to detect how the libbfd version on the system
behaves, which is why we have to handle features disassembler-four-args
and disassembler-init-styled in the Makefile. When it comes to shipping
bpftool, this has also caused issues with several distribution
maintainers unwilling to support the feature (see for example Debian's
page for binutils-dev, which ships libbfd: "Note that building Debian
packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not Allowed." [0]).

For these reasons, we add support for LLVM as an alternative to libbfd
for disassembling instructions of JIT-ed programs. Thanks to the
preparation work in the previous commits, it's easy to add the library
by passing the relevant compilation options in the Makefile, and by
adding the functions for setting up the LLVM disassembler in file
jit_disasm.c.

The LLVM disassembler requires the LLVM development package (usually
llvm-dev or llvm-devel).

The expectation is that the interface for this disassembler will be more
stable. There is a note in LLVM's Developer Policy [1] stating that the
stability for the C API is "best effort" and not guaranteed, but at
least there is some effort to keep compatibility when possible (which
hasn't really been the case for libbfd so far). Furthermore, the Debian
page for the related LLVM package does not caution against linking to
the lib, as binutils-dev page does.

Naturally, the display of disassembled instructions comes with a few
minor differences. Here is a sample output with libbfd (already
supported before this patch):

    # bpftool prog dump jited id 56
    bpf_prog_6deef7357e7b4530:
       0:   nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
       5:   xchg   %ax,%ax
       7:   push   %rbp
       8:   mov    %rsp,%rbp
       b:   push   %rbx
       c:   push   %r13
       e:   push   %r14
      10:   mov    %rdi,%rbx
      13:   movzwq 0xb4(%rbx),%r13
      1b:   xor    %r14d,%r14d
      1e:   or     $0x2,%r14d
      22:   mov    $0x1,%eax
      27:   cmp    $0x2,%r14
      2b:   jne    0x000000000000002f
      2d:   xor    %eax,%eax
      2f:   pop    %r14
      31:   pop    %r13
      33:   pop    %rbx
      34:   leave
      35:   ret

LLVM supports several variants that we could set when initialising the
disassembler, for example with:

    LLVMSetDisasmOptions(*ctx,
                         LLVMDisassembler_Option_AsmPrinterVariant);

but the default printer is used for now. Here is the output with LLVM:

    # bpftool prog dump jited id 56
    bpf_prog_6deef7357e7b4530:
       0:   nopl    (%rax,%rax)
       5:   nop
       7:   pushq   %rbp
       8:   movq    %rsp, %rbp
       b:   pushq   %rbx
       c:   pushq   %r13
       e:   pushq   %r14
      10:   movq    %rdi, %rbx
      13:   movzwq  180(%rbx), %r13
      1b:   xorl    %r14d, %r14d
      1e:   orl     $2, %r14d
      22:   movl    $1, %eax
      27:   cmpq    $2, %r14
      2b:   jne     0x2f
      2d:   xorl    %eax, %eax
      2f:   popq    %r14
      31:   popq    %r13
      33:   popq    %rbx
      34:   leave
      35:   retq

The LLVM disassembler comes as the default choice, with libbfd as a
fall-back.

Of course, we could replace libbfd entirely and avoid supporting two
different libraries. One reason for keeping libbfd is that, right now,
it works well, we have all we need in terms of features detection in the
Makefile, so it provides a fallback for disassembling JIT-ed programs if
libbfd is installed but LLVM is not. The other motivation is that libbfd
supports nfp instruction for Netronome's SmartNICs and can be used to
disassemble offloaded programs, something that LLVM cannot do. If
libbfd's interface breaks again in the future, we might reconsider
keeping support for it.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/buster/binutils-dev
[1] https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#c-api-changes

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Tested-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025150329.97371-7-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.h b/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.h
index c9e171082cf6..9a149c67aa5d 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.h
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.h
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ int map_parse_fds(int *argc, char ***argv, int **fds);
 int map_parse_fd_and_info(int *argc, char ***argv, void *info, __u32 *info_len);
 
 struct bpf_prog_linfo;
-#ifdef HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT
+#if defined(HAVE_LLVM_SUPPORT) || defined(HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT)
 int disasm_print_insn(unsigned char *image, ssize_t len, int opcodes,
 		      const char *arch, const char *disassembler_options,
 		      const struct btf *btf,
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ int disasm_print_insn(unsigned char *image, ssize_t len, int opcodes,
 }
 static inline int disasm_init(void)
 {
-	p_err("No libbfd support");
+	p_err("No JIT disassembly support");
 	return -1;
 }
 #endif