1 files changed, 43 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index e8f70977d137..667e6853e51f 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -67,14 +67,52 @@ struct bpf_object_open_attr {
 	enum bpf_prog_type prog_type;
 };
 
+/* Helper macro to declare and initialize libbpf options struct
+ *
+ * This dance with uninitialized declaration, followed by memset to zero,
+ * followed by assignment using compound literal syntax is done to preserve
+ * ability to use a nice struct field initialization syntax and **hopefully**
+ * have all the padding bytes initialized to zero. It's not guaranteed though,
+ * when copying literal, that compiler won't copy garbage in literal's padding
+ * bytes, but that's the best way I've found and it seems to work in practice.
+ */
+#define LIBBPF_OPTS(TYPE, NAME, ...)					    \
+	struct TYPE NAME;						    \
+	memset(&NAME, 0, sizeof(struct TYPE));				    \
+	NAME = (struct TYPE) {						    \
+		.sz = sizeof(struct TYPE),				    \
+		__VA_ARGS__						    \
+	}
+
+struct bpf_object_open_opts {
+	/* size of this struct, for forward/backward compatiblity */
+	size_t sz;
+	/* object name override, if provided:
+	 * - for object open from file, this will override setting object
+	 *   name from file path's base name;
+	 * - for object open from memory buffer, this will specify an object
+	 *   name and will override default "<addr>-<buf-size>" name;
+	 */
+	const char *object_name;
+	/* parse map definitions non-strictly, allowing extra attributes/data */
+	bool relaxed_maps;
+};
+#define bpf_object_open_opts__last_field relaxed_maps
+
 LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *bpf_object__open(const char *path);
 LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
+bpf_object__open_file(const char *path, struct bpf_object_open_opts *opts);
+LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
+bpf_object__open_mem(const void *obj_buf, size_t obj_buf_sz,
+		     struct bpf_object_open_opts *opts);
+
+/* deprecated bpf_object__open variants */
+LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
+bpf_object__open_buffer(const void *obj_buf, size_t obj_buf_sz,
+			const char *name);
+LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
 bpf_object__open_xattr(struct bpf_object_open_attr *attr);
-struct bpf_object *__bpf_object__open_xattr(struct bpf_object_open_attr *attr,
-					    int flags);
-LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *bpf_object__open_buffer(void *obj_buf,
-						      size_t obj_buf_sz,
-						      const char *name);
+
 int bpf_object__section_size(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name,
 			     __u32 *size);
 int bpf_object__variable_offset(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name,