From: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 00:14:55 +0800
Subject: libbpf: Support uniform BTF-defined key/value specification across
all BPF maps
Patch-mainline: v5.16-rc1
Git-commit: f731052325efc3726577feb743c7495f880ae07d
References: jsc#PED-1377
A bunch of BPF maps do not support specifying BTF types for key and value.
This is non-uniform and inconvenient[0]. Currently, libbpf uses a retry
logic which removes BTF type IDs when BPF map creation failed. Instead
of retrying, this commit recognizes those specialized maps and removes
BTF type IDs when creating BPF map.
[0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/355
Signed-off-by: Hengqi Chen <hengqi.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210930161456.3444544-2-hengqi.chen@gmail.com
Acked-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu@suse.com>
---
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -4646,6 +4646,30 @@ static int bpf_object__create_map(struct
create_attr.inner_map_fd = map->inner_map_fd;
}
+ switch (def->type) {
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_ARRAY:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK_TRACE:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY_OF_MAPS:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH_OF_MAPS:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_DEVMAP:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_DEVMAP_HASH:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_CPUMAP:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_XSKMAP:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKMAP:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_SOCKHASH:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_QUEUE:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_STACK:
+ case BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF:
+ create_attr.btf_fd = 0;
+ create_attr.btf_key_type_id = 0;
+ create_attr.btf_value_type_id = 0;
+ map->btf_key_type_id = 0;
+ map->btf_value_type_id = 0;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+
if (obj->gen_loader) {
bpf_gen__map_create(obj->gen_loader, &create_attr, is_inner ? -1 : map - obj->maps);
/* Pretend to have valid FD to pass various fd >= 0 checks.