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    bpf: libbpf: Provide basic API support to specify BPF obj name · 88cda1c9
    Martin KaFai Lau authored
    
    
    This patch extends the libbpf to provide API support to
    allow specifying BPF object name.
    
    In tools/lib/bpf/libbpf, the C symbol of the function
    and the map is used.  Regarding section name, all maps are
    under the same section named "maps".  Hence, section name
    is not a good choice for map's name.  To be consistent with
    map, bpf_prog also follows and uses its function symbol as
    the prog's name.
    
    This patch adds logic to collect function's symbols in libbpf.
    There is existing codes to collect the map's symbols and no change
    is needed.
    
    The bpf_load_program_name() and bpf_map_create_name() are
    added to take the name argument.  For the other bpf_map_create_xxx()
    variants, a name argument is directly added to them.
    
    In samples/bpf, bpf_load.c in particular, the symbol is also
    used as the map's name and the map symbols has already been
    collected in the existing code.  For bpf_prog, bpf_load.c does
    not collect the function symbol name.  We can consider to collect
    them later if there is a need to continue supporting the bpf_load.c.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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