Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 06/18] libbpf: refactor BTF map definition parsing

On 4/23/21 11:13 AM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:

Refactor BTF-defined maps parsing logic to allow it to be nicely reused by BPF
static linker. Further, at least for BPF static linker, it's important to know
which attributes of a BPF map were defined explicitly, so provide a bit set
for each known portion of BTF map definition. This allows BPF static linker to
do a simple check when dealing with extern map declarations.

The same capabilities allow to distinguish attributes explicitly set to zero
(e.g., __uint(max_entries, 0)) vs the case of not specifying it at all (no
max_entries attribute at all). Libbpf is currently not utilizing that, but it
could be useful for backwards compatibility reasons later.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <redacted>