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Add a bulk copying api, btf__add_btf(), that speeds up and simplifies appending entire contents of one BTF object to another one, taking care of copying BTF type data, adjusting resulting BTF type IDs according to their new locations in the destination BTF object, as well as copying and deduplicating all the referenced strings and updating all the string offsets in new BTF types as appropriate. This API is intended to be used from tools that are generating and otherwise manipulating BTFs generically, such as pahole. In pahole's case, this API is useful for speeding up parallelized BTF encoding, as it allows pahole to offload all the intricacies of BTF type copying to libbpf and handle the parallelization aspects of the process. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211006051107.17921-2-andrii@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.