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Andrii Nakryiko d8dd0beb98 libbpf: Generate more efficient BPF_CORE_READ code
Existing BPF_CORE_READ() macro generates slightly suboptimal code. If
there are intermediate pointers to be read, initial source pointer is
going to be assigned into a temporary variable and then temporary
variable is going to be uniformly used as a "source" pointer for all
intermediate pointer reads. Schematically (ignoring all the type casts),
BPF_CORE_READ(s, a, b, c) is expanded into:
({
	const void *__t = src;
	bpf_probe_read(&__t, sizeof(*__t), &__t->a);
	bpf_probe_read(&__t, sizeof(*__t), &__t->b);

	typeof(s->a->b->c) __r;
	bpf_probe_read(&__r, sizeof(*__r), &__t->c);
})

This initial `__t = src` makes calls more uniform, but causes slightly
less optimal register usage sometimes when compiled with Clang. This can
cascase into, e.g., more register spills.

This patch fixes this issue by generating more optimal sequence:
({
	const void *__t;
	bpf_probe_read(&__t, sizeof(*__t), &src->a); /* <-- src here */
	bpf_probe_read(&__t, sizeof(*__t), &__t->b);

	typeof(s->a->b->c) __r;
	bpf_probe_read(&__r, sizeof(*__r), &__t->c);
})

Fixes: 7db3822ab991 ("libbpf: Add BPF_CORE_READ/BPF_CORE_READ_INTO helpers")
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191011023847.275936-1-andriin@fb.com
2019-10-15 19:43:48 -07:00
include uapi/bpf: fix helper docs 2019-10-09 14:42:45 -07:00
scripts sync: teach sync script to generate bpf_helper_defs.h 2019-10-09 14:42:45 -07:00
src libbpf: Generate more efficient BPF_CORE_READ code 2019-10-15 19:43:48 -07:00
travis-ci/managers ci: execute install step in CI 2019-10-01 12:56:22 -07:00
.travis.yml Travis CI: add gcc-8, gcc-8 ASan+UBSan tests 2019-04-30 11:39:37 -07:00
BPF-CHECKPOINT-COMMIT sync: latest libbpf changes from kernel 2019-10-09 14:42:45 -07:00
CHECKPOINT-COMMIT sync: latest libbpf changes from kernel 2019-10-09 14:42:45 -07:00
README.md meson: kill meson.build as it's not used anymore 2019-10-01 16:51:32 -07:00

This is a mirror of bpf-next linux tree's tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.

The following files will by sync'ed with bpf-next repo:

  • src/ <-> bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf/
  • include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h
  • include/uapi/linux/bpf.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
  • include/uapi/linux/btf.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h
  • include/uapi/linux/if_link.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
  • include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h
  • include/uapi/linux/netlink.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
  • include/tools/libc_compat.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/tools/libc_compat.h

Other header files at this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of their counterpart files at bpf-next's tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation successful.

Build Build Status

libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link against and must be installed on the system for applications to work. pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be overridden with PKG_CONFIG. If using pkg-config at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by setting NO_PKG_CONFIG=1 when calling make.

To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:

$ cd src
$ make

To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:

$ cd src
$ mkdir build root
$ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install

To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:

$ cd src
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install