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Currently, bpf_object__load() (and by induction skeleton's load), will always attempt to prepare, relocate, and load into kernel every single BPF program found inside the BPF object file. This is often convenient and the right thing to do and what users expect. But there are plenty of cases (especially with BPF development constantly picking up the pace), where BPF application is intended to work with old kernels, with potentially reduced set of features. But on kernels supporting extra features, it would like to take a full advantage of them, by employing extra BPF program. This could be a choice of using fentry/fexit over kprobe/kretprobe, if kernel is recent enough and is built with BTF. Or BPF program might be providing optimized bpf_iter-based solution that user-space might want to use, whenever available. And so on. With libbpf and BPF CO-RE in particular, it's advantageous to not have to maintain two separate BPF object files to achieve this. So to enable such use cases, this patch adds ability to request not auto-loading chosen BPF programs. In such case, libbpf won't attempt to perform relocations (which might fail due to old kernel), won't try to resolve BTF types for BTF-aware (tp_btf/fentry/fexit/etc) program types, because BTF might not be present, and so on. Skeleton will also automatically skip auto-attachment step for such not loaded BPF programs. Overall, this feature allows to simplify development and deployment of real-world BPF applications with complicated compatibility requirements. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200625232629.3444003-2-andriin@fb.com |
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