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    kbuild: add ability to generate BTF type info for vmlinux · e83b9f55
    Andrii Nakryiko authored
    This patch adds new config option to trigger generation of BTF type
    information from DWARF debuginfo for vmlinux and kernel modules through
    pahole, which in turn relies on libbpf for btf_dedup() algorithm.
    
    The intent is to record compact type information of all types used
    inside kernel, including all the structs/unions/typedefs/etc. This
    enables BPF's compile-once-run-everywhere ([0]) approach, in which
    tracing programs that are inspecting kernel's internal data (e.g.,
    struct task_struct) can be compiled on a system running some kernel
    version, but would be possible to run on other kernel versions (and
    configurations) without recompilation, even if the layout of structs
    changed and/or some of the fields were added, removed, or renamed.
    
    This is only possible if BPF loader can get kernel type info to adjust
    all the offsets correctly. This patch is a first time in this direction,
    making sure that BTF type info is part of Linux kernel image in
    non-loadable ELF section.
    
    BTF deduplication ([1]) algorithm typically provides 100x savings
    compared to DWARF data, so resulting .BTF section is not big as is
    typically about 2MB in size.
    
    [0] http://vger.kernel.org/lpc-bpf2018.html#session-2
    [1] https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/bpf/blog/2018/11/14/btf-enhancement.html
    
    
    
    Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
    Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
    Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
    Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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