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    libbpf: Introduce bpf_map__resize · 1a11a4c7
    Andrey Ignatov authored
    Add bpf_map__resize() to change max_entries for a map.
    
    Quite often necessary map size is unknown at compile time and can be
    calculated only at run time.
    
    Currently the following approach is used to do so:
    * bpf_object__open_buffer() to open Elf file from a buffer;
    * bpf_object__find_map_by_name() to find relevant map;
    * bpf_map__def() to get map attributes and create struct
      bpf_create_map_attr from them;
    * update max_entries in bpf_create_map_attr;
    * bpf_create_map_xattr() to create new map with updated max_entries;
    * bpf_map__reuse_fd() to replace the map in bpf_object with newly
      created one.
    
    And after all this bpf_object can finally be loaded. The map will have
    new size.
    
    It 1) is quite a lot of steps; 2) doesn't take BTF into account.
    
    For "2)" even more steps should be made and some of them require changes
    to libbpf (e.g. to get struct btf * from bpf_object).
    
    Instead the whole problem can be solved by introducing simple
    bpf_map__resize() API that checks the map and sets new max_entries if
    the map is not loaded yet.
    
    So the new steps are:
    * bpf_object__open_buffer() to open Elf file from a buffer;
    * bpf_object__find_map_by_name() to find relevant map;
    * bpf_map__resize() to update max_entries.
    
    That's much simpler and works with BTF.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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