4 This directory contains a test stubs, verifier test-suite and examples
5 for using eBPF. The examples use libbpf from tools/lib/bpf.
10 Compiling requires having installed:
11 * clang >= version 3.4.0
12 * llvm >= version 3.7.1
14 Note that LLVM's tool 'llc' must support target 'bpf', list version
15 and supported targets with command: ``llc --version``
17 Clean and configuration
18 -----------------------
20 It can be needed to clean tools, samples or kernel before trying new arch or
21 after some changes (on demand)::
24 make -C samples/bpf clean
27 Configure kernel, defconfig for instance::
34 There are usually dependencies to header files of the current kernel.
35 To avoid installing devel kernel headers system wide, as a normal
40 This will creates a local "usr/include" directory in the git/build top
41 level directory, that the make system automatically pickup first.
46 For building the BPF samples, issue the below command from the kernel
51 It is also possible to call make from this directory. This will just
52 hide the invocation of make as above.
54 Manually compiling LLVM with 'bpf' support
55 ------------------------------------------
57 Since version 3.7.0, LLVM adds a proper LLVM backend target for the
58 BPF bytecode architecture.
60 By default llvm will build all non-experimental backends including bpf.
61 To generate a smaller llc binary one can use::
63 -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF"
65 Quick sniplet for manually compiling LLVM and clang
66 (build dependencies are cmake and gcc-c++)::
68 $ git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git
70 $ git clone --depth 1 http://llvm.org/git/clang.git
71 $ cd ..; mkdir build; cd build
72 $ cmake .. -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF;X86"
73 $ make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
75 It is also possible to point make to the newly compiled 'llc' or
76 'clang' command via redefining LLC or CLANG on the make command line::
78 make M=samples/bpf LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm/build/bin/clang
80 Cross compiling samples
81 -----------------------
82 In order to cross-compile, say for arm64 targets, export CROSS_COMPILE and ARCH
83 environment variables before calling make. But do this before clean,
84 cofiguration and header install steps described above. This will direct make to
85 build samples for the cross target::
88 export CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-"
90 Headers can be also installed on RFS of target board if need to keep them in
91 sync (not necessarily and it creates a local "usr/include" directory also)::
93 make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=~/some_sysroot/usr headers_install
95 Pointing LLC and CLANG is not necessarily if it's installed on HOST and have
96 in its targets appropriate arm64 arch (usually it has several arches).
101 Or build samples with SYSROOT if some header or library is absent in toolchain,
102 say libelf, providing address to file system containing headers and libs,
103 can be RFS of target board::
105 make M=samples/bpf SYSROOT=~/some_sysroot