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authorAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>2023-01-20 12:08:59 -0800
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2023-01-23 20:53:00 +0100
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libbpf: Add BPF_UPROBE and BPF_URETPROBE macro aliases
Add BPF_UPROBE and BPF_URETPROBE macros, aliased to BPF_KPROBE and BPF_KRETPROBE, respectively. This makes uprobe-based BPF program code much less confusing, especially to people new to tracing, at no cost in terms of maintainability. We'll use this macro in selftests in subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230120200914.3008030-11-andrii@kernel.org
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-rw-r--r--tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h
index 510df96ff19d..9c4246fe8799 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf_tracing.h
@@ -781,4 +781,11 @@ ____##name(struct pt_regs *ctx, ##args)
#define BPF_KPROBE_SYSCALL BPF_KSYSCALL
+/* BPF_UPROBE and BPF_URETPROBE are identical to BPF_KPROBE and BPF_KRETPROBE,
+ * but are named way less confusingly for SEC("uprobe") and SEC("uretprobe")
+ * use cases.
+ */
+#define BPF_UPROBE(name, args...) BPF_KPROBE(name, ##args)
+#define BPF_URETPROBE(name, args...) BPF_KRETPROBE(name, ##args)
+
#endif