With llvm 7.0 or earlier, the map symbol type is STT_NOTYPE.
-bash-4.4$ cat t.c
__attribute__((section("maps"))) int g;
-bash-4.4$ clang -target bpf -O2 -c t.c
-bash-4.4$ readelf -s t.o
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 2 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT 3 g
The following llvm commit enables BPF target to generate
proper symbol type and size.
commit bf6ec206615b9718869d48b4e5400d0c6e3638dd
Author: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Date: Wed Sep 19 16:04:13 2018 +0000
[bpf] Symbol sizes and types in object file
Clang-compiled object files currently don't include the symbol sizes and
types. Some tools however need that information. For example, ctfconvert
uses that information to generate FreeBSD's CTF representation from ELF
files.
With this patch, symbol sizes and types are included in object files.
Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@orange.com>
Reported-by: Yutaro Hayakawa <yhayakawa3720@gmail.com>
Hence, for llvm 8.0.0 (currently trunk), symbol type will be not NOTYPE, but OBJECT.
-bash-4.4$ clang -target bpf -O2 -c t.c
-bash-4.4$ readelf -s t.o
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 3 entries:
Num: Value Size Type Bind Vis Ndx Name
0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND
1: 0000000000000000 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS t.c
2: 0000000000000000 4 OBJECT GLOBAL DEFAULT 3 g
This patch makes sure bpf library accepts both NOTYPE and OBJECT types
of global map symbols.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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