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Andrii Nakryiko e21d585cb3 libbpf: Deprecate multi-instance bpf_program APIs
Schedule deprecation of a set of APIs that are related to multi-instance
bpf_programs:
  - bpf_program__set_prep() ([0]);
  - bpf_program__{set,unset}_instance() ([1]);
  - bpf_program__nth_fd().

These APIs are obscure, very niche, and don't seem to be used much in
practice. bpf_program__set_prep() is pretty useless for anything but the
simplest BPF programs, as it doesn't allow to adjust BPF program load
attributes, among other things. In short, it already bitrotted and will
bitrot some more if not removed.

With bpf_program__insns() API, which gives access to post-processed BPF
program instructions of any given entry-point BPF program, it's now
possible to do whatever necessary adjustments were possible with
set_prep() API before, but also more. Given any such use case is
automatically an advanced use case, requiring users to stick to
low-level bpf_prog_load() APIs and managing their own prog FDs is
reasonable.

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/299
  [1] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/300

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211025224531.1088894-4-andrii@kernel.org
2021-10-25 18:37:21 -07:00
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accounting
arch A set of fixes for X86: 2021-09-26 10:09:20 -07:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Define memblock_free_ptr() to fix build error 2021-09-15 09:49:48 -07:00
bpf bpftool: Switch to libbpf's hashmap for PIDs/names references 2021-10-25 17:31:39 -07:00
build perf cs-etm: Update OpenCSD decoder for ETE 2021-09-03 08:16:00 -03:00
cgroup tools/cgroup/slabinfo.py: updated to work on current kernel 2021-04-23 14:42:40 -07:00
debugging tools: Fix "the the" in a message in kernel-chktaint 2021-06-13 17:01:17 -06:00
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio
hv
iio
include bpf: Add verified_insns to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo 2021-10-21 15:51:47 -07:00
io_uring tools/io_uring/io_uring-cp: sync with liburing example 2021-08-13 08:58:11 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: Fix documentation typo 2021-05-07 06:06:22 -04:00
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Deprecate multi-instance bpf_program APIs 2021-10-25 18:37:21 -07:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Document data_race(READ_ONCE()) 2021-07-27 11:48:55 -07:00
objtool A single ELF format fix for a section flags mismatch bug that breaks 2021-06-28 11:35:55 -07:00
pci tools: PCI: Zero-initialize param 2021-08-05 11:01:30 +01:00
pcmcia
perf perf bpf: Switch to new btf__raw_data API 2021-10-22 16:09:14 -07:00
power tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: v1.10 release 2021-06-18 15:29:32 +02:00
rcu tools/rcu: Add drgn script to dump number of RCU callbacks 2021-05-10 15:39:19 -07:00
scripts tools build: Fix quiet cmd indentation 2021-05-17 12:10:03 +09:00
spi spi: tools: make a symbolic link to the header file spi.h 2021-04-22 16:30:39 +01:00
testing selftests/bpf: Split out bpf_verif_scale selftests into multiple tests 2021-10-25 14:45:46 -07:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal/tmon: Add cross compiling support 2021-08-14 15:33:19 +02:00
time
tracing
usb usb: testusb: Fix for showing the connection speed 2021-09-14 10:31:41 +02:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix build 2021-08-11 06:44:24 -04:00
vm tools/vm/page-types: remove dependency on opt_file for idle page tracking 2021-09-24 16:13:35 -07:00
wmi
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