Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 1/7] libbpf: split bpf_core_apply_relo()

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 2:59 PM Mauricio Vásquez [off-list ref] wrote:

BTFGen needs to run the core relocation logic in order to understand
what are the types involved in a given relocation.

Currently bpf_core_apply_relo() calculates and **applies** a relocation
to an instruction. Having both operations in the same function makes it
difficult to only calculate the relocation without patching the
instruction. This commit splits that logic in two different phases: (1)
calculate the relocation and (2) patch the instruction.

For the first phase bpf_core_apply_relo() is renamed to
bpf_core_calc_relo_insn() who is now only on charge of calculating the
relocation, the second phase uses the already existing
bpf_core_patch_insn(). bpf_object__relocate_core() uses both of them and
the BTFGen will use only bpf_core_calc_relo_insn().

Signed-off-by: Mauricio Vásquez <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Rafael David Tinoco <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Fontana <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Di Donato <redacted>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>