Libbpf's Makefile relies on Linux tools infrastructure's feature detection
framework, but libbpf's needs are very modest: it detects the presence of
libelf and libz, both of which are mandatory. So it doesn't benefit much from
the framework, but pays significant costs in terms of maintainability and
debugging experience, when something goes wrong. The other feature detector,
testing for the presernce of minimal BPF API in system headers is long
obsolete as well, providing no value.
So stop using feature detection and just assume the presence of libelf and
libz during build time. Worst case, user will get a clear and actionable
linker error, e.g.:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lelf
On the other hand, we completely bypass recurring issues various users
reported over time with false negatives of feature detection (libelf or libz
not being detected, while they are actually present in the system).
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210203203445.3356114-1-andrii@kernel.org
Commit 5c26f9a783 ("libbpf: Don't use cxx to test_libpf target")
converted existing c++ test to c. We still want to include and
link against libbpf from c++ code, so reinstate this test back,
this time in a form of a selftest with a clear comment about
its purpose.
v2:
* -lelf -> $(LDLIBS) (Andrii Nakryiko)
Fixes: 5c26f9a783 ("libbpf: Don't use cxx to test_libpf target")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191202215931.248178-1-sdf@google.com
Move bpf_helpers.h, bpf_tracing.h, and bpf_endian.h into libbpf. Move
bpf_helper_defs.h generation into libbpf's Makefile. Ensure all those
headers are installed along the other libbpf headers. Also, adjust
selftests and samples include path to include libbpf now.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191008175942.1769476-6-andriin@fb.com
Using cscope and/or TAGS files for navigating the source code is useful.
Add simple targets to the Makefile to generate the index files for both
tools.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191004153444.1711278-1-toke@redhat.com
Some binaries are generated when building libbpf from tools/lib/bpf/,
namely libbpf.so.0.0.2 and libbpf.so.0.
Add them to the local .gitignore.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <mcroce@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Generate a libbpf.pc file at build time so that users can rely
on pkg-config to find the library, its CFLAGS and LDFLAGS.
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
We build test_libbpf with CXX to make sure linking against C++ works.
$ make -s -C tools/lib/bpf
$ git status -sb
? tools/lib/bpf/test_libbpf
$ make -s -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf
$ git status -sb
? tools/lib/bpf/test_libbpf
? tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_libbpf
Fixes: 8c4905b995 ("libbpf: make sure bpf headers are c++ include-able")
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Commit ed63f34c02 ("perf tools: Make perf
depend on libbpf") triggers the build of libbpf when building the perf
tools, dynamically creating FEATURE-DUMP.libbpf.
It failed to update the tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore file to have that
prefix, fix it.
Signed-off-by: Yunlong Song <yunlong.song@huawei.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Fixes: 65f041bee7 ("tools lib bpf: Use FEATURE_USER to allow building in the same dir as perf")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446706594-4142-1-git-send-email-yunlong.song@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
This is the first patch of libbpf. The goal of libbpf is to create a
standard way for accessing eBPF object files. This patch creates
'Makefile' and 'Build' for it, allows 'make' to build libbpf.a and
libbpf.so, 'make install' to put them into proper directories.
Most part of Makefile is borrowed from traceevent.
Before building, it checks the existence of libelf in Makefile, and deny
to build if not found. Instead of throwing an error if libelf not found,
the error raises in a phony target "elfdep". This design is to ensure
'make clean' still workable even if libelf is not found.
Because libbpf requires 'kern_version' field set for 'union bpf_attr'
(bpfdep" is used for that dependency), Kernel BPF API is also checked
by intruducing a new feature check 'bpf' into tools/build/feature,
which checks the existence and version of linux/bpf.h. When building
libbpf, it searches that file from include/uapi/linux in kernel source
tree (controlled by FEATURE_CHECK_CFLAGS-bpf). Since it searches kernel
source tree it reside, installing of newest kernel headers is not
required, except we are trying to port these files to an old kernel.
To avoid checking that file when perf building, the newly introduced
'bpf' feature check doesn't added into FEATURE_TESTS and
FEATURE_DISPLAY by default in tools/build/Makefile.feature, but added
into libbpf's specific.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Bcc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435716878-189507-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Andrii Nakryiko