On 2/15/19 9:25 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:17:27PM +0000, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu: >> On 2/14/19 4:47 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >>> I wonder if we should have a libbtf, with the same licensing as libbpf, >>> as, for instance, pahole would be interested only in the btf parts, be >>> it encoding, loading and pretty printing. >> >> I don't think it's possible to do such split. >> .btf.ext section only makes sense together with bpf prog. > > Well, that part, that is not about types and only makes sense together > with the BPF parts could stay in libbpf, no? I don't see how. .btf.ext is using string section of .btf It's all connected. Even if it was possible to somehow split them I think one big library is better than a bunch of smaller ones. It's written in C so .text size concern doesn't apply.
