On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 07:19:29PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 09:35:59AM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: > > Introduce in-kernel headers and other artifacts which are made available > > as an archive through proc (/proc/kheaders.txz file). This archive makes > > it possible to build kernel modules, run eBPF programs, and other > > tracing programs that need to extend the kernel for tracing purposes > > without any dependency on the file system having headers and build > > artifacts. > > > > On Android and embedded systems, it is common to switch kernels but not > > have kernel headers available on the file system. Raw kernel headers > > also cannot be copied into the filesystem like they can be on other > > distros, due to licensing and other issues. There's no linux-headers > > package on Android. Further once a different kernel is booted, any > > headers stored on the file system will no longer be useful. By storing > > the headers as a compressed archive within the kernel, we can avoid these > > issues that have been a hindrance for a long time. > > The set looks good to me and since the main use case is building bpf progs > I can route it via bpf-next tree if there are no objections. > Masahiro, could you please ack it? > Yes, eBPF is one of the usecases. After this, I am also planning to send patches to BCC so that it can use this feature when compiling C to eBPF. Thanks! - Joel
