[RFC PATCH bpf-next 1/7] bpftool: strip const/volatile/restrict modifiers from .bss and .data vars
From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-05-07 05:41:29
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Subsystem:
bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), bpf [tooling] (bpftool), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Quentin Monnet, Linus Torvalds
Similarly to .rodata, strip any const/volatile/restrict modifiers when generating BPF skeleton. They are not helpful and actually just get in the way. Acked-by: Yonghong Song <redacted> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> --- tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
index 31ade77f5ef8..440a2fcb6441 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/gen.c@@ -106,8 +106,10 @@ static int codegen_datasec_def(struct bpf_object *obj, if (strcmp(sec_name, ".data") == 0) { sec_ident = "data"; + strip_mods = true; } else if (strcmp(sec_name, ".bss") == 0) { sec_ident = "bss"; + strip_mods = true; } else if (strcmp(sec_name, ".rodata") == 0) { sec_ident = "rodata"; strip_mods = true;
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2.30.2