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Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== Add libbpf APIs to access BPF program instructions. Both before and after libbpf processing (before and after bpf_object__load()). This allows to inspect what's going on with BPF program assembly instructions as libbpf performs its processing magic. But in more practical terms, this allows to do a no-brainer BPF program cloning, which is something you need when working with fentry/fexit BPF programs to be able to attach the same BPF program code to multiple kernel functions. Currently, kernel needs multiple copies of BPF programs, each loaded with its own target BTF ID. retsnoop is one such example that previously had to rely on bpf_program__set_prep() API to hijack program instructions ([0] for before and after). Speaking of bpf_program__set_prep() API and the whole concept of multiple-instance BPF programs in libbpf, all that is scheduled for deprecation in v0.7. It doesn't work well, it's cumbersome, and it will become more broken as libbpf adds more functionality. So deprecate and remove it in libbpf 1.0. It doesn't seem to be used by anyone anyways (except for that retsnoop hack, which is now much cleaner with new APIs as can be seen in [0]). [0] https://github.com/anakryiko/retsnoop/pull/1 ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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