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bcc uses libbpf repo as a submodule. It brings in libbpf source
code and builds everything together to produce shared libraries.
With latest libbpf, I got the following errors:
/bin/ld: libbcc_bpf.so.0.10.0: version node not found for symbol xsk_umem__create@LIBBPF_0.0.2
/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [src/cc/libbcc_bpf.so.0.10.0] Error 1
In xsk.c, we have
asm(".symver xsk_umem__create_v0_0_2, xsk_umem__create@LIBBPF_0.0.2");
asm(".symver xsk_umem__create_v0_0_4, xsk_umem__create@@LIBBPF_0.0.4");
The linker thinks the built is for LIBBPF but cannot find proper version
LIBBPF_0.0.2/4, so emit errors.
I also confirmed that using libbpf.a to produce a shared library also
has issues:
-bash-4.4$ cat t.c
extern void *xsk_umem__create;
void * test() { return xsk_umem__create; }
-bash-4.4$ gcc -c -fPIC t.c
-bash-4.4$ gcc -shared t.o libbpf.a -o t.so
/bin/ld: t.so: version node not found for symbol xsk_umem__create@LIBBPF_0.0.2
/bin/ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
-bash-4.4$
Symbol versioning does happens in commonly used libraries, e.g., elfutils
and glibc. For static libraries, for a versioned symbol, the old definitions
will be ignored, and the symbol will be an alias to the latest definition.
For example, glibc sched_setaffinity is versioned.
-bash-4.4$ readelf -s /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 | grep sched_setaffinity
756: 000000000013d3d0 13 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 sched_setaffinity@GLIBC_2.3.3
757: 00000000000e2e70 455 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4
1800: 0000000000000000 0 FILE LOCAL DEFAULT ABS sched_setaffinity.c
4228: 00000000000e2e70 455 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 13 __sched_setaffinity_new
4648: 000000000013d3d0 13 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 13 __sched_setaffinity_old
7338: 000000000013d3d0 13 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 sched_setaffinity@GLIBC_2
7380: 00000000000e2e70 455 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 13 sched_setaffinity@@GLIBC_
-bash-4.4$
For static library, the definition of sched_setaffinity aliases to the new definition.
-bash-4.4$ readelf -s /usr/lib64/libc.a | grep sched_setaffinity
File: /usr/lib64/libc.a(sched_setaffinity.o)
8: 0000000000000000 455 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 __sched_setaffinity_new
12: 0000000000000000 455 FUNC WEAK DEFAULT 1 sched_setaffinity
For both elfutils and glibc, additional macros are used to control different handling
of symbol versioning w.r.t static and shared libraries.
For elfutils, the macro is SYMBOL_VERSIONING
(https://sourceware.org/git/?p=elfutils.git;a=blob;f=lib/eu-config.h).
For glibc, the macro is SHARED
(https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=include/shlib-compat.h;hb=refs/heads/master)
This patch used SHARED as the macro name. After this patch, the libbpf.a has
-bash-4.4$ readelf -s libbpf.a | grep xsk_umem__create
372: 0000000000017145 1190 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 xsk_umem__create_v0_0_4
405: 0000000000017145 1190 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 xsk_umem__create
499: 00000000000175eb 103 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 1 xsk_umem__create_v0_0_2
-bash-4.4$
No versioned symbols for xsk_umem__create.
The libbpf.a can be used to build a shared library succesfully.
-bash-4.4$ cat t.c
extern void *xsk_umem__create;
void * test() { return xsk_umem__create; }
-bash-4.4$ gcc -c -fPIC t.c
-bash-4.4$ gcc -shared t.o libbpf.a -o t.so
-bash-4.4$
Fixes: 10d30e301732 ("libbpf: add flags to umem config")
Cc: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This is a mirror of bpf-next linux tree's
tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.
The following files will by sync'ed with bpf-next repo:
src/<->bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.hinclude/uapi/linux/bpf.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.hinclude/uapi/linux/btf.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.hinclude/uapi/linux/if_link.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.hinclude/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.hinclude/uapi/linux/netlink.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.hinclude/tools/libc_compat.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/tools/libc_compat.h
Other header files at this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of
their counterpart files at bpf-next's tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation
successful.
Build 
libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link
against and must be installed on the system for applications to work.
pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be
overridden with PKG_CONFIG.
If using pkg-config at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by setting
NO_PKG_CONFIG=1 when calling make.
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:
$ cd src
$ make
To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:
$ cd src
$ mkdir build root
$ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:
$ cd src
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install
To integrate libbpf into a project which uses Meson building system define
[wrap-git] file in subprojects folder.
To add libbpf dependency to the parent parent project, e.g. for
libbpf_static_dep:
libbpf_obj = subproject('libbpf', required : true)
libbpf_static_dep = libbpf_proj.get_variable('libbpf_static_dep')
To validate changes to meson.build
$ python3 meson.py build
$ ninja -C build/
To install headers, libs and pkgconfig
$ cd build
$ ninja install