Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/7] selftests/bpf: split off tracing-only helpers into bpf_tracing.h

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Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:35 AM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@xxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > +/* a helper structure used by eBPF C program
>> > + * to describe BPF map attributes to libbpf loader
>> > + */
>> > +struct bpf_map_def {
>> > +     unsigned int type;
>> > +     unsigned int key_size;
>> > +     unsigned int value_size;
>> > +     unsigned int max_entries;
>> > +     unsigned int map_flags;
>> > +};
>>
>> Why is this still here? There's already an identical definition in libbpf.h...
>>
>
> It's a BPF (kernel) side vs userspace side difference. bpf_helpers.h
> are included from BPF program, while libbpf.h won't work on kernel
> side. So we have to have a duplicate of bpf_map_def.

Ah, yes, of course. Silly me :)

-Toke





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