Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 4 authors, 2021-10-20

Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/4] libbpf: deprecate bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear

From: Andrii Nakryiko <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-20 17:37:40
Also in: bpf

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 1:20 AM Dave Marchevsky [off-list ref] wrote:
As part of the road to libbpf 1.0, and discussed in libbpf issue tracker
[0], bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear and its associated structs and
helper functions should be deprecated. The functionality is too specific
to the needs of 'perf', and there's little/no out-of-tree usage to
preclude introduction of a more general helper in the future.

[0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/313
styling nit: don't know if it's described anywhere or not, but when
people do references like this, they use 2 spaces of indentation. No
idea how it came to be, but that's what I did for a while and see
others doing the same.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky <redacted>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index 89ca9c83ed4e..285008b46e1b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -877,12 +877,15 @@ struct bpf_prog_info_linear {
        __u8                    data[];
 };

+LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(0, 7, "use a custom linear prog_info wrapper")
 LIBBPF_API struct bpf_prog_info_linear *
 bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear(int fd, __u64 arrays);

+LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(0, 7, "use a custom linear prog_info wrapper")
 LIBBPF_API void
 bpf_program__bpil_addr_to_offs(struct bpf_prog_info_linear *info_linear);

+LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(0, 7, "use a custom linear prog_info wrapper")
we can actually deprecate all this starting from v0.6, because perf is
building libbpf statically, so no worries about releases (also there
are no replacement APIs we have to wait full release for)

 LIBBPF_API void
 bpf_program__bpil_offs_to_addr(struct bpf_prog_info_linear *info_linear);

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