Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 2/5] libbpf: Prepare light skeleton for the kernel.

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On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 9:43 PM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Prepare light skeleton to be used in the kernel module and in the user space.
> The look and feel of lskel.h is mostly the same with the difference that for
> user space the skel->rodata is the same pointer before and after skel_load
> operation, while in the kernel the skel->rodata after skel_open and the
> skel->rodata after skel_load are different pointers.
> Typical usage of skeleton remains the same for kernel and user space:
> skel = my_bpf__open();
> skel->rodata->my_global_var = init_val;
> err = my_bpf__load(skel);
> err = my_bpf__attach(skel);
> // access skel->rodata->my_global_var;
> // access skel->bss->another_var;
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

I like Yonghong's suggestion to remove unnecessary function, but LGTM either way

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  tools/lib/bpf/gen_loader.c    |  15 ++-
>  tools/lib/bpf/skel_internal.h | 195 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  2 files changed, 189 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>

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