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Previously, BTF has only included types for functions, as well as percpu variables. There are a few applications for this type information. For one, runtime debuggers like drgn[1] can consume it in the absence of DWARF debuginfo. The support in drgn is currently implemented and moving through the review process, see [2]. For distributions which don't distribute DWARF debuginfo, or for situations where it can't be made available, the compact BTF, combined with ORC for stack unwinding, and the kallsyms symbol table, can be used for simple runtime debugging and introspection. Another application is verifying types of ksyms in BPF programs. libbpf already supports resolving global variables with "__ksym", but they must be declared as void. For example, in tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c we have: extern const void bpf_map_fops __ksym; With global variable information, declarations like these would be able to use the actual variable types, for example: extern const struct file_operations bpf_map_fops __ksym; When the feature was implemented in pahole, my measurements indicated that vmlinux BTF size increased by about 25.8%, and module BTF size increased by 53.2%. Due to these increases, the feature is implemented behind a new config option, allowing users sensitive to increased memory usage to disable it. [1]: https://github.com/osandov/drgn [2]: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/issues/176 Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 10 ++++++++++ scripts/Makefile.btf | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1af972a92d06f..3fbdc5ba2d017 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -409,6 +409,16 @@ config PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE otherwise it would emit malformed kernel and module binaries when using DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES. +config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_GLOBAL_VARS + bool "Generate BTF type information for all global variables" + default y + depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && PAHOLE_VERSION >= 128 + help + Include type information for all global variables in the BTF. This + increases the size of the BTF information, which increases memory + usage at runtime. With global variable types available, runtime + debugging and tracers may be able to provide more detail. + config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES bool "Generate BTF type information for kernel modules" default y diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.btf b/scripts/Makefile.btf index c3cbeb13de503..ad3c05a96a010 100644 --- a/scripts/Makefile.btf +++ b/scripts/Makefile.btf @@ -31,5 +31,8 @@ endif pahole-flags-$(CONFIG_PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE) += --lang_exclude=rust +# Requires v1.28 or later, enforced by KConfig +pahole-flags-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_GLOBAL_VARS) += --btf_features=global_var + export PAHOLE_FLAGS := $(pahole-flags-y) export MODULE_PAHOLE_FLAGS := $(module-pahole-flags-y)