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This patch fixed two issues with BTF. One is related to
struct/union bitfield encoding and the other is related to
forward type.
Issue #1 and solution:
======================
Current btf encoding of bitfield follows what pahole generates.
For each bitfield, pahole will duplicate the type chain and
put the bitfield size at the final int or enum type.
Since the BTF enum type cannot encode bit size,
pahole workarounds the issue by generating
an int type whenever the enum bit size is not 32.
For example,
-bash-4.4$ cat t.c
typedef int ___int;
enum A { A1, A2, A3 };
struct t {
int a[5];
___int b:4;
volatile enum A c:4;
} g;
-bash-4.4$ gcc -c -O2 -g t.c
The current kernel supports the following BTF encoding:
$ pahole -JV t.o
[1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2
[2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3
A1 val=0
A2 val=1
A3 val=2
[4] STRUCT t size=24 vlen=3
a type_id=5 bits_offset=0
b type_id=9 bits_offset=160
c type_id=11 bits_offset=164
[5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5
[6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none)
[7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3
[8] INT int size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=(none)
[9] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=8
[10] INT (anon) size=1 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=4 encoding=SIGNED
[11] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=10
Two issues are in the above:
. by changing enum type to int, we lost the original
type information and this will not be ideal later
when we try to convert BTF to a header file.
. the type duplication for bitfields will cause
BTF bloat. Duplicated types cannot be deduplicated
later if the bitfield size is different.
To fix this issue, this patch implemented a compatible
change for BTF struct type encoding:
. the bit 31 of struct_type->info, previously reserved,
now is used to indicate whether bitfield_size is
encoded in btf_member or not.
. if bit 31 of struct_type->info is set,
btf_member->offset will encode like:
bit 0 - 23: bit offset
bit 24 - 31: bitfield size
if bit 31 is not set, the old behavior is preserved:
bit 0 - 31: bit offset
So if the struct contains a bit field, the maximum bit offset
will be reduced to (2^24 - 1) instead of MAX_UINT. The maximum
bitfield size will be 256 which is enough for today as maximum
bitfield in compiler can be 128 where int128 type is supported.
This kernel patch intends to support the new BTF encoding:
$ pahole -JV t.o
[1] TYPEDEF ___int type_id=2
[2] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[3] ENUM A size=4 vlen=3
A1 val=0
A2 val=1
A3 val=2
[4] STRUCT t kind_flag=1 size=24 vlen=3
a type_id=5 bitfield_size=0 bits_offset=0
b type_id=1 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=160
c type_id=7 bitfield_size=4 bits_offset=164
[5] ARRAY (anon) type_id=2 index_type_id=2 nr_elems=5
[6] INT sizetype size=8 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=64 encoding=(none)
[7] VOLATILE (anon) type_id=3
Issue #2 and solution:
======================
Current forward type in BTF does not specify whether the original
type is struct or union. This will not work for type pretty print
and BTF-to-header-file conversion as struct/union must be specified.
$ cat tt.c
struct t;
union u;
int foo(struct t *t, union u *u) { return 0; }
$ gcc -c -g -O2 tt.c
$ pahole -JV tt.o
[1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[2] FWD t type_id=0
[3] PTR (anon) type_id=2
[4] FWD u type_id=0
[5] PTR (anon) type_id=4
To fix this issue, similar to issue #1, type->info bit 31
is used. If the bit is set, it is union type. Otherwise, it is
a struct type.
$ pahole -JV tt.o
[1] INT int size=4 bit_offset=0 nr_bits=32 encoding=SIGNED
[2] FWD t kind_flag=0 type_id=0
[3] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=2
[4] FWD u kind_flag=1 type_id=0
[5] PTR (anon) kind_flag=0 type_id=4
Pahole/LLVM change:
===================
The new kind_flag functionality has been implemented in pahole
and llvm:
https://github.com/yonghong-song/pahole/tree/bitfield
https://github.com/yonghong-song/llvm/tree/bitfield
Note that pahole hasn't implemented func/func_proto kind
and .BTF.ext. So to print function signature with bpftool,
the llvm compiler should be used.
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