libbpf: Support BTF loading and raw data output in both endianness

Teach BTF to recognized wrong endianness and transparently convert it
internally to host endianness. Original endianness of BTF will be preserved
and used during btf__get_raw_data() to convert resulting raw data to the same
endianness and a source raw_data. This means that little-endian host can parse
big-endian BTF with no issues, all the type data will be presented to the
client application in native endianness, but when it's time for emitting BTF
to persist it in a file (e.g., after BTF deduplication), original non-native
endianness will be preserved and stored.

It's possible to query original endianness of BTF data with new
btf__endianness() API. It's also possible to override desired output
endianness with btf__set_endianness(), so that if application needs to load,
say, big-endian BTF and store it as little-endian BTF, it's possible to
manually override this. If btf__set_endianness() was used to change
endianness, btf__endianness() will reflect overridden endianness.

Given there are no known use cases for supporting cross-endianness for
.BTF.ext, loading .BTF.ext in non-native endianness is not supported.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200929043046.1324350-3-andriin@fb.com

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h
index f7dec0144c3c..57247240a20a 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/btf.h
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ struct btf_type;
 
 struct bpf_object;
 
+enum btf_endianness {
+	BTF_LITTLE_ENDIAN = 0,
+	BTF_BIG_ENDIAN = 1,
+};
+
 LIBBPF_API void btf__free(struct btf *btf);
 LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__new(const void *data, __u32 size);
 LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__new_empty(void);
@@ -42,6 +47,8 @@ LIBBPF_API const struct btf_type *btf__type_by_id(const struct btf *btf,
 						  __u32 id);
 LIBBPF_API size_t btf__pointer_size(const struct btf *btf);
 LIBBPF_API int btf__set_pointer_size(struct btf *btf, size_t ptr_sz);
+LIBBPF_API enum btf_endianness btf__endianness(const struct btf *btf);
+LIBBPF_API int btf__set_endianness(struct btf *btf, enum btf_endianness endian);
 LIBBPF_API __s64 btf__resolve_size(const struct btf *btf, __u32 type_id);
 LIBBPF_API int btf__resolve_type(const struct btf *btf, __u32 type_id);
 LIBBPF_API int btf__align_of(const struct btf *btf, __u32 id);