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Andrii Nakryiko
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Drop the requirement for system-wide kernel UAPI headers to provide full
struct btf_enum64 definition. This is an unexpected requirement that
slipped in libbpf 1.0 and put unnecessary pressure ([0]) on users to have
a bleeding-edge kernel UAPI header from unreleased Linux 6.0.
To achieve this, we forward declare struct btf_enum64. But that's not
enough as there is btf_enum64_value() helper that expects to know the
layout of struct btf_enum64. So we get a bit creative with
reinterpreting memory layout as array of __u32 and accesing lo32/hi32
fields as array elements. Alternative way would be to have a local
pointer variable for anonymous struct with exactly the same layout as
struct btf_enum64, but that gets us into C++ compiler errors complaining
about invalid type casts. So play it safe, if ugly.
[0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/562
Fixes: d90ec262b3 ("libbpf: Add enum64 support for btf_dump")
Reported-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@toke.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220927042940.147185-1-andrii@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
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.