linux/tools/lib
Andrii Nakryiko 62e23f1838 libbpf: Improve BTF dedup handling of "identical" BTF types
BTF dedup has a strong assumption that compiler with deduplicate identical
types within any given compilation unit (i.e., .c file). This property
is used when establishing equilvalence of two subgraphs of types.

Unfortunately, this property doesn't always holds in practice. We've
seen cases of having truly identical structs, unions, array definitions,
and, most recently, even pointers to the same type being duplicated
within CU.

Previously, we mitigated this on a case-by-case basis, adding a few
simple heuristics for validating that two BTF types (having two
different type IDs) are structurally the same. But this approach scales
poorly, and we can have more weird cases come up in the future.

So let's take a half-step back, and implement a bit more generic
structural equivalence check, recursively. We still limit it to
reasonable depth to avoid long reference loops. Depth-wise limiting of
potentially cyclical graph isn't great, but as I mentioned below doesn't
seem to be detrimental performance-wise. We can always improve this in
the future with per-type visited markers, if necessary.

Performance-wise this doesn't seem too affect vmlinux BTF dedup, which
makes sense because this logic kicks in not so frequently and only if we
already established a canonical candidate type match, but suddenly find
a different (but probably identical) type.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250501235231.1339822-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-05-05 14:51:47 -07:00
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api libapi: Add missing header with NAME_MAX define to io_dir.h 2025-03-13 00:29:36 -07:00
bpf libbpf: Improve BTF dedup handling of "identical" BTF types 2025-05-05 14:51:47 -07:00
perf perf tools changes for v6.15 2025-03-31 08:52:33 -07:00
subcmd perf tools changes for v6.13 2024-11-26 14:54:00 -08:00
symbol tools: Drop nonsensical -O6 2024-09-11 13:08:36 -03:00
thermal tools: Remove redundant quiet setup 2025-02-18 16:27:43 -03:00
argv_split.c
bitmap.c lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers 2025-03-17 12:17:00 -07:00
cmdline.c memblock test: fix implicit declaration of function 'memparse' 2024-08-06 08:21:25 +03:00
ctype.c
find_bit.c tools: sync find_bit() implementation 2022-09-21 12:21:44 -07:00
hweight.c
list_sort.c tools/lib/list_sort: remove unnecessary header includes 2024-11-05 17:12:33 -08:00
rbtree.c tools lib rbtree: pick some improvements from the kernel rbtree code 2024-05-08 08:41:27 -07:00
slab.c lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure 2025-03-17 12:17:00 -07:00
str_error_r.c
string.c perf annotate: Add disasm_line__parse() to parse raw instruction for powerpc 2024-07-31 16:12:59 -03:00
vsprintf.c
zalloc.c