Add `bpftool gen object <output-file> <input_file>...` command to statically
link multiple BPF ELF object files into a single output BPF ELF object file.
This patch also updates bash completions and man page. Man page gets a short
section on `gen object` command, but also updates the skeleton example to show
off workflow for BPF application with two .bpf.c files, compiled individually
with Clang, then resulting object files are linked together with `gen object`,
and then final object file is used to generate usable BPF skeleton. This
should help new users understand realistic workflow w.r.t. compiling
mutli-file BPF application.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-10-andrii@kernel.org
Add optional name OBJECT_NAME parameter to `gen skeleton` command to override
default object name, normally derived from input file name. This allows much
more flexibility during build time.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210318194036.3521577-9-andrii@kernel.org
Most netlink-related functions were unique to bpftool usage, so I moved them
into net.c. Few functions are still used by both bpftool and libbpf itself
internally, so I've copy-pasted them (libbpf_nl_get_link,
libbpf_netlink_open). It's a bit of duplication of code, but better separation
of libbpf as a library with public API and bpftool, relying on unexposed
functions in libbpf.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819013607.3607269-3-andriin@fb.com
The comment in the code describes this in good details. Generate such a memory
layout that would work both on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures for user-space.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200813204945.1020225-9-andriin@fb.com
Seems like C++17 standard mode doesn't recognize typeof() anymore. This can
be tested by compiling test_cpp test with -std=c++17 or -std=c++1z options.
The use of typeof in skeleton generated code is unnecessary, all types are
well-known at the time of code generation, so remove all typeof()'s to make
skeleton code more future-proof when interacting with C++ compilers.
Fixes: 985ead416d ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200812025907.1371956-1-andriin@fb.com
Reliably remove all the type modifiers from read-only (.rodata) global
variable definitions, including cases of inner field const modifiers and
arrays of const values.
Also modify one of selftests to ensure that const volatile struct doesn't
prevent user-space from modifying .rodata variable.
Fixes: 985ead416d ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200713232409.3062144-3-andriin@fb.com
Remove unnecessary check at the end of codegen() routine which makes codegen()
to always fail and exit bpftool with error code. Positive value of variable
n is not an indicator of a failure.
Fixes: 2c4779eff8 ("tools, bpftool: Exit on error in function codegen")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200612201603.680852-1-andriin@fb.com
Currently, the codegen function might fail and return an error. But its
callers continue without checking its return value. Since codegen can
fail only in the unlikely case of the system running out of memory or
the static template being malformed, just exit(-1) directly from codegen
and make it void-returning.
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200611103341.21532-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
Free the memory allocated for the template on error paths in function
codegen.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200610130804.21423-1-tklauser@distanz.ch
This is a clean-up for the formatting of the do_help functions for
bpftool's subcommands. The following fixes are included:
- Do not use argv[-2] for "iter" help message, as the help is shown by
default if no "iter" action is selected, resulting in messages looking
like "./bpftool bpftool pin...".
- Do not print unused HELP_SPEC_PROGRAM in help message for "bpftool
link".
- Andrii used argument indexing to avoid having multiple occurrences of
bin_name and argv[-2] in the fprintf() for the help message, for
"bpftool gen" and "bpftool link". Let's reuse this for all other help
functions. We can remove up to thirty arguments for the "bpftool map"
help message.
- Harmonise all functions, e.g. use ending quotes-comma on a separate
line.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200523010751.23465-1-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fix bpftool to include libbpf header files with the bpf/ prefix, to be
consistent with external users of the library. Also ensure that all
includes of exported libbpf header files (those that are exported on 'make
install' of the library) use bracketed includes instead of quoted.
To make sure no new files are introduced that doesn't include the bpf/
prefix in its include, remove tools/lib/bpf from the include path entirely,
and use tools/lib instead.
Fixes: 6910d7d386 ("selftests/bpf: Ensure bpf_helper_defs.h are taken from selftests dir")
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/157952560684.1683545.4765181397974997027.stgit@toke.dk
When auto-generated BPF skeleton C code is included from C++ application, it
triggers compilation error due to void * being implicitly casted to whatever
target pointer type. This is supported by C, but not C++. To solve this
problem, add explicit casts, where necessary.
To ensure issues like this are captured going forward, add skeleton usage in
test_cpp test.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191226210253.3132060-1-andriin@fb.com
Change format string referring to just single argument out of two available.
Some versions of libc can reject such format string.
Reported-by: Nikita Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218214314.2403729-1-andriin@fb.com
Embed contents of BPF object file used for BPF skeleton generation inside
skeleton itself. This allows to keep BPF object file and its skeleton in sync
at all times, and simpifies skeleton instantiation.
Also switch existing selftests to not require BPF_EMBED_OBJ anymore.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-2-andriin@fb.com
The ident variable has already been declared at the top of the function
and doesn't need to be re-declared.
Fixes: 985ead416d ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command")
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@orange.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216112733.GA28366@Omicron
Add support for generation of mmap()-ed read-only view of libbpf-provided
extern variables. As externs are not supposed to be provided by user code
(that's what .data, .bss, and .rodata is for), don't mmap() it initially. Only
after skeleton load is performed, map .extern contents as read-only memory.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-4-andriin@fb.com
Add `bpftool gen skeleton` command, which takes in compiled BPF .o object file
and dumps a BPF skeleton struct and related code to work with that skeleton.
Skeleton itself is tailored to a specific structure of provided BPF object
file, containing accessors (just plain struct fields) for every map and
program, as well as dedicated space for bpf_links. If BPF program is using
global variables, corresponding structure definitions of compatible memory
layout are emitted as well, making it possible to initialize and subsequently
read/update global variables values using simple and clear C syntax for
accessing fields. This skeleton majorly improves usability of
opening/loading/attaching of BPF object, as well as interacting with it
throughout the lifetime of loaded BPF object.
Generated skeleton struct has the following structure:
struct <object-name> {
/* used by libbpf's skeleton API */
struct bpf_object_skeleton *skeleton;
/* bpf_object for libbpf APIs */
struct bpf_object *obj;
struct {
/* for every defined map in BPF object: */
struct bpf_map *<map-name>;
} maps;
struct {
/* for every program in BPF object: */
struct bpf_program *<program-name>;
} progs;
struct {
/* for every program in BPF object: */
struct bpf_link *<program-name>;
} links;
/* for every present global data section: */
struct <object-name>__<one of bss, data, or rodata> {
/* memory layout of corresponding data section,
* with every defined variable represented as a struct field
* with exactly the same type, but without const/volatile
* modifiers, e.g.:
*/
int *my_var_1;
...
} *<one of bss, data, or rodata>;
};
This provides great usability improvements:
- no need to look up maps and programs by name, instead just
my_obj->maps.my_map or my_obj->progs.my_prog would give necessary
bpf_map/bpf_program pointers, which user can pass to existing libbpf APIs;
- pre-defined places for bpf_links, which will be automatically populated for
program types that libbpf knows how to attach automatically (currently
tracepoints, kprobe/kretprobe, raw tracepoint and tracing programs). On
tearing down skeleton, all active bpf_links will be destroyed (meaning BPF
programs will be detached, if they are attached). For cases in which libbpf
doesn't know how to auto-attach BPF program, user can manually create link
after loading skeleton and they will be auto-detached on skeleton
destruction:
my_obj->links.my_fancy_prog = bpf_program__attach_cgroup_whatever(
my_obj->progs.my_fancy_prog, <whatever extra param);
- it's extremely easy and convenient to work with global data from userspace
now. Both for read-only and read/write variables, it's possible to
pre-initialize them before skeleton is loaded:
skel = my_obj__open(raw_embed_data);
my_obj->rodata->my_var = 123;
my_obj__load(skel); /* 123 will be initialization value for my_var */
After load, if kernel supports mmap() for BPF arrays, user can still read
(and write for .bss and .data) variables values, but at that point it will
be directly mmap()-ed to BPF array, backing global variables. This allows to
seamlessly exchange data with BPF side. From userspace program's POV, all
the pointers and memory contents stay the same, but mapped kernel memory
changes to point to created map.
If kernel doesn't yet support mmap() for BPF arrays, it's still possible to
use those data section structs to pre-initialize .bss, .data, and .rodata,
but after load their pointers will be reset to NULL, allowing user code to
gracefully handle this condition, if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-14-andriin@fb.com
Andrii Nakryiko