On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 1:04 PM grantseltzer <grantseltzer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This adds comments above functions in libbpf.h which document
> their uses. These comments are of a format that doxygen and sphinx
> can pick up and render. These are rendered by libbpf.readthedocs.org
>
> These doc comments are for:
>
> - bpf_object__open_file()
> - bpf_object__open_mem()
> - bpf_program__attach_uprobe()
> - bpf_program__attach_uprobe_opts()
>
> Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@xxxxxxxxx>
s/libb.h/libbpf.h/ in subject
> ---
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
> index 4ec69f224342..acfb207e71d1 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
> @@ -108,8 +108,26 @@ struct bpf_object_open_opts {
> #define bpf_object_open_opts__last_field btf_custom_path
>
> LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *bpf_object__open(const char *path);
> +
> +/**
> + * @brief **bpf_object__open_file()** creates a bpf_object by opening
> + * the BPF object file pointed to by the passed path and loading it
> + * into memory.
> + * @param path BPF object file relative or absolute path
> + * @param opts options for how to load the bpf object
> + * @return pointer to the new bpf_object
Please document return value on errors, i.e. libbpf_err_ptr(err)
instead of NULL. Same for all functions here.
> + */
> LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
> bpf_object__open_file(const char *path, const struct bpf_object_open_opts *opts);
> +
> +/**
> + * @brief **bpf_object__open_mem()** creates a bpf_object by reading
> + * the BPF objects raw bytes from an in memory buffer.
> + * @param obj_buf pointer to the buffer containing bpf object bytes
> + * @param obj_buf_sz number of bytes in the buffer
> + * @param opts options for how to load the bpf object
> + * @return pointer to the new bpf_object
> + */
> LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
> bpf_object__open_mem(const void *obj_buf, size_t obj_buf_sz,
> const struct bpf_object_open_opts *opts);
> @@ -344,10 +362,37 @@ struct bpf_uprobe_opts {
> };
> #define bpf_uprobe_opts__last_field retprobe
>
> +/**
> + * @brief **bpf_program__attach_uprobe** attaches a BPF program
> + * to the userspace function which is found by binary path and
> + * offset. You can optionally specify a particular proccess to attach
s/proccess/process/
> + * to. You can also optionally attach the program to the function
> + * exit instead of entry.
> + *
> + * @param prog BPF program to attach
> + * @param retprobe Attach to function exit
> + * @param pid Process ID to attach the uprobe to, -1 for all processes
> + * @param binary_path Path to binary that contains the function symbol
> + * @param func_offset Offset within the binary of the function symbol
> + * @return Reference to the newly created BPF link
> + */
> LIBBPF_API struct bpf_link *
> bpf_program__attach_uprobe(const struct bpf_program *prog, bool retprobe,
> pid_t pid, const char *binary_path,
> size_t func_offset);
> +
> +/**
> + * @brief **bpf_program__attach_uprobe_opts** is just like
> + * bpf_program__attach_uprobe except with a options struct
> + * for various configurations.
> + *
> + * @param prog BPF program to attach
> + * @param pid Process ID to attach the uprobe to, -1 for all processes
> + * @param binary_path Path to binary that contains the function symbol
> + * @param func_offset Offset within the binary of the function symbol
> + * @param opts Options for altering program attachment
Let's also document details about these options.
> + * @return Reference to the newly created BPF link
> + */
> LIBBPF_API struct bpf_link *
> bpf_program__attach_uprobe_opts(const struct bpf_program *prog, pid_t pid,
> const char *binary_path, size_t func_offset,
> --
> 2.31.1
>
