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From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jbrouer@redhat.com>
To: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	"andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com" <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: brouer@redhat.com, Zaremba Larysa <larysa.zaremba@intel.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	"xdp-hints@xdp-project.net" <xdp-hints@xdp-project.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [xdp-hints] Re: How to extract BTF object ID from kernel module?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 19:22:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f5c47d95-5ff4-3b5b-98db-c69fbf6538b5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c7c8f91-a430-719c-5ef7-174cafa6c0be@redhat.com>


On 30/08/2022 15.17, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Hi Andrii,
> 
> When opening a modules BTF file (e.g. /sys/kernel/btf/i40e), can I
> somehow get the kernels BTF object ID value (via that FD)?

I had hoped I could simply open /sys/kernel/btf/module [1]
and use bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd(), but that fails

  [1] 
https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/blob/BTF-playground01/BTF-playground/btf_module_read.c#L84
  [2] 
https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/blob/BTF-playground01/BTF-playground/btf_module_read.c#L48

> I think I want the BTF object IDs as displayed by 'btftool btf'.
> That code walks all IDs via bpf_btf_get_next_id() and then gets the FD
> via bpf_btf_get_fd_by_id().  I'm looking for a more direct way than
> having to walk all IDs...
> 
> (p.s. Cc. Larysa, I also looked at your code, which like bpftool end-up
> walking all BTF IDs and extends libbpf with internal btf_obj_id to keep
> track).

My current approach I end-up walking [3] all the BTF IDs via 
bpf_btf_get_next_id() and then use bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd().
And then searching for the module name like this[4].

  [3] 
https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/blob/BTF-playground01/BTF-playground/btf_module_ids.c#L144
  [4] 
https://github.com/xdp-project/bpf-examples/blob/BTF-playground01/BTF-playground/btf_module_ids.c#L187-L256

Is this the only approach?

It seems wasteful that I have to walk all the IDs, when I already knows 
what BTF file in /sys/kernel/btf/ I'm interested in...

--Jesper


      reply	other threads:[~2022-08-31 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-30 13:17 [xdp-hints] " Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2022-08-31 17:22 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer [this message]

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