tools: bpftool: Support dumping split BTF by id
authorQuentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:20:28 +0000 (17:20 +0100)
committerAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:23:59 +0000 (17:23 -0700)
commit211ab78f7658b50ea10c4569be63ca5009fd39b4
tree185f4f21dd1eeacc5048b3ad4884a2ceefa3bef2
parent61fc51b1d3e5915e356f2c0b67cd3bb13b640413
tools: bpftool: Support dumping split BTF by id

Split BTF objects are typically BTF objects for kernel modules, which
are incrementally built on top of kernel BTF instead of redefining all
kernel symbols they need. We can use bpftool with its -B command-line
option to dump split BTF objects. It works well when the handle provided
for the BTF object to dump is a "path" to the BTF object, typically
under /sys/kernel/btf, because bpftool internally calls
btf__parse_split() which can take a "base_btf" pointer and resolve the
BTF reconstruction (although in that case, the "-B" option is
unnecessary because bpftool performs autodetection).

However, it did not work so far when passing the BTF object through its
id, because bpftool would call btf__get_from_id() which did not provide
a way to pass a "base_btf" pointer.

In other words, the following works:

    # bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/i2c_smbus -B /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux

But this was not possible:

    # bpftool btf dump id 6 -B /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux

The libbpf API has recently changed, and btf__get_from_id() has been
deprecated in favour of btf__load_from_kernel_by_id() and its version
with support for split BTF, btf__load_from_kernel_by_id_split(). Let's
update bpftool to make it able to dump the BTF object in the second case
as well.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210729162028.29512-9-quentin@isovalent.com
tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c