Messages in this thread | | | From | Larysa Zaremba <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bpftool: Use sysfs vmlinux when dumping BTF by ID | Date | Thu, 5 May 2022 15:56:26 +0200 |
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:58:58 -0700 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 4:17 AM Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com> wrote: > > > > Currently, dumping almost all BTFs specified by id requires > > It should and will work only for kernel modules. It won't and > shouldn't work for BTFs coming from BPF programs. We shouldn't blindly > guess and substitute vmlinux BTF as base BTF, let's fetch > bpf_btf_info, check that BTF is from kernel and is not vmlinux, and > only in such case substitute vmlinux BTF as base BTF.
I agree, this is taken into account in v2
> > using the -B option to pass the base BTF. For most cases > > the vmlinux BTF sysfs path should work. > > > > This patch simplifies dumping by ID usage by attempting to > > use vmlinux BTF from sysfs, if the first try of loading BTF by ID > > fails with certain conditions. > > > > Signed-off-by: Larysa Zaremba <larysa.zaremba@intel.com> > > Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> > > --- > > tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- > > 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > >
Best Regards, Larysa Zaremba
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