On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:25:24PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
This series converts iproute2 to use libbpf for loading and attaching
BPF programs when it is available. This means that iproute2 will
correctly process BTF information and support the new-style BTF-defined
maps, while keeping compatibility with the old internal map definition
syntax.
This is achieved by checking for libbpf at './configure' time, and using
it if available. By default the system libbpf will be used, but static
linking against a custom libbpf version can be achieved by passing
LIBBPF_DIR to configure. FORCE_LIBBPF can be set to force configure to
abort if no suitable libbpf is found (useful for automatic packaging
that wants to enforce the dependency).
The old iproute2 bpf code is kept and will be used if no suitable libbpf
is available. When using libbpf, wrapper code ensures that iproute2 will
still understand the old map definition format, including populating
map-in-map and tail call maps before load.
The examples in bpf/examples are kept, and a separate set of examples
are added with BTF-based map definitions for those examples where this
is possible (libbpf doesn't currently support declaratively populating
tail call maps).
Awesome to see this work continue! Thank you.