Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Move BPF_PROG, BPF_KPROBE, and BPF_KRETPROBE to libbpf

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On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 03:11:08PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> Move BPF_PROG, BPF_KPROBE, and BPF_KRETPROBE helper macros from private
> selftests helpers to public libbpf ones. These helpers are extremely helpful
> for writing tracing BPF applications and have been requested to be exposed for
> easy use (e.g., [0]).
> 
> As part of this move, fix up BPF_KRETPROBE to not allow for capturing input
> arguments (as it's unreliable and they will be often clobbered). Also, add
> vmlinux.h header guard to allow multi-time inclusion, if necessary; but also
> to let PT_REGS_PARM do proper detection of struct pt_regs field names on x86
> arch. See relevant patches for more details.
> 
>   [0] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/2778#issue-381642907

Looks like folks started to copy paste this macro into different places.
So definitely makes sense to move it.
Applied. Thanks



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