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Andrii Nakryiko
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Alan Maguire says: ==================== This series aims to resolve further issues with the BTF typed data dumping interfaces in libbpf. Compilation failures with use of __int128 on 32-bit platforms were reported [1]. As a result, the use of __int128 in libbpf typed data dumping is replaced with __u64 usage for bitfield manipulations. In the case of 128-bit integer values, they are simply split into two 64-bit hex values for display (patch 1). Tests are added for __int128 display in patch 2, using conditional compilation to avoid problems with a lack of __int128 support. Patch 3 resolves an issue Andrii noted about error propagation when handling enum data display. More followup work is required to ensure multi-dimensional char array display works correctly. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1626362126-27775-1-git-send-email-alan.maguire@oracle.com/T/#mc2cb023acfd6c3cd0b661e385787b76bb757430d Changes since v1: - added error handling for bitfield size > 64 bits by changing function signature for bitfield retrieval to return an int error value and to set bitfield value via a __u64 * argument (Andrii) ==================== Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.