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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
arch Misc fixes: 2025-04-26 09:45:54 -07:00
block block-6.15-20250424 2025-04-25 11:34:39 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: scomp - Fix off-by-one bug when calculating last page 2025-04-23 09:32:57 +08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after rc4 2025-04-28 08:40:45 -07:00
drivers pci-v6.15-fixes-3 2025-04-26 13:02:36 -07:00
fs vfs-6.15-rc4.fixes 2025-04-25 15:57:21 -07:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after rc4 2025-04-28 08:40:45 -07:00
init Kconfig: switch CONFIG_SYSFS_SYCALL default to n 2025-04-15 10:28:35 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: fix 'sync' handling of io_fallback_tw() 2025-04-24 10:32:43 -06:00
ipc treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable 2025-01-28 13:48:37 +01:00
kernel bpf: Replace offsetof() with struct_size() 2025-05-05 14:21:46 -07:00
lib hardening fixes for v6.15-rc3 2025-04-18 13:20:20 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/migrate: fix sleep in atomic for large folios and buffer heads 2025-04-22 18:16:08 +02:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after rc4 2025-04-28 08:40:45 -07:00
rust Driver core fixes for 6.15-rc4 2025-04-25 10:02:59 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix compilation failure for samples/bpf on LoongArch Fedora 2025-04-25 09:32:02 -07:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf after rc4 2025-04-28 08:40:45 -07:00
security Landlock fix for v6.15-rc4 2025-04-24 12:59:05 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.15 2025-04-11 15:51:19 +02:00
tools libbpf: Improve BTF dedup handling of "identical" BTF types 2025-05-05 14:51:47 -07:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-05 04:06:45 +09:00
virt ARM: 2025-04-08 13:47:55 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update the ForEachMacros list for v6.15-rc1 2025-04-13 11:03:59 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-01-10 00:17:25 +01:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved 2025-03-17 00:29:50 +09:00
.mailmap sound fixes for 6.15-rc3 2025-04-17 10:14:51 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update SLAB ALLOCATOR maintainers 2025-04-17 20:10:06 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS pci-v6.15-fixes-3 2025-04-26 13:02:36 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.15-rc4 2025-04-27 15:19:23 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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