libbpf: Add auto-pinning of maps when loading BPF objects

This adds support to libbpf for setting map pinning information as part of
the BTF map declaration, to get automatic map pinning (and reuse) on load.
The pinning type currently only supports a single PIN_BY_NAME mode, where
each map will be pinned by its name in a path that can be overridden, but
defaults to /sys/fs/bpf.

Since auto-pinning only does something if any maps actually have a
'pinning' BTF attribute set, we default the new option to enabled, on the
assumption that seamless pinning is what most callers want.

When a map has a pin_path set at load time, libbpf will compare the map
pinned at that location (if any), and if the attributes match, will re-use
that map instead of creating a new one. If no existing map is found, the
newly created map will instead be pinned at the location.

Programs wanting to customise the pinning can override the pinning paths
using bpf_map__set_pin_path() before calling bpf_object__load() (including
setting it to NULL to disable pinning of a particular map).

Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/157269298092.394725.3966306029218559681.stgit@toke.dk

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index e71773a6bfdf..6ddc0419337b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -103,8 +103,13 @@ struct bpf_object_open_opts {
 	bool relaxed_maps;
 	/* process CO-RE relocations non-strictly, allowing them to fail */
 	bool relaxed_core_relocs;
+	/* maps that set the 'pinning' attribute in their definition will have
+	 * their pin_path attribute set to a file in this directory, and be
+	 * auto-pinned to that path on load; defaults to "/sys/fs/bpf".
+	 */
+	const char *pin_root_path;
 };
-#define bpf_object_open_opts__last_field relaxed_core_relocs
+#define bpf_object_open_opts__last_field pin_root_path
 
 LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *bpf_object__open(const char *path);
 LIBBPF_API struct bpf_object *
@@ -125,6 +130,12 @@ int bpf_object__section_size(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name,
 int bpf_object__variable_offset(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name,
 				__u32 *off);
 
+enum libbpf_pin_type {
+	LIBBPF_PIN_NONE,
+	/* PIN_BY_NAME: pin maps by name (in /sys/fs/bpf by default) */
+	LIBBPF_PIN_BY_NAME,
+};
+
 /* pin_maps and unpin_maps can both be called with a NULL path, in which case
  * they will use the pin_path attribute of each map (and ignore all maps that
  * don't have a pin_path set).