libbpf: Add bpf_link pinning/unpinning

With bpf_link abstraction supported by kernel explicitly, add
pinning/unpinning API for links. Also allow to create (open) bpf_link from BPF
FS file.

This API allows to have an "ephemeral" FD-based BPF links (like raw tracepoint
or fexit/freplace attachments) surviving user process exit, by pinning them in
a BPF FS, which is an important use case for long-running BPF programs.

As part of this, expose underlying FD for bpf_link. While legacy bpf_link's
might not have a FD associated with them (which will be expressed as
a bpf_link with fd=-1), kernel's abstraction is based around FD-based usage,
so match it closely. This, subsequently, allows to have a generic
pinning/unpinning API for generalized bpf_link. For some types of bpf_links
kernel might not support pinning, in which case bpf_link__pin() will return
error.

With FD being part of generic bpf_link, also get rid of bpf_link_fd in favor
of using vanialla bpf_link.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200303043159.323675-3-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko
2020-03-02 20:31:58 -08:00
committed by Andrii Nakryiko
parent 40a08ef216
commit 77ac09c3eb
3 changed files with 114 additions and 27 deletions

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@@ -238,5 +238,10 @@ LIBBPF_0.0.7 {
LIBBPF_0.0.8 {
global:
bpf_link__fd;
bpf_link__open;
bpf_link__pin;
bpf_link__pin_path;
bpf_link__unpin;
bpf_program__set_attach_target;
} LIBBPF_0.0.7;