On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 11:12 AM Y Song <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM David Blaikie <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > OK, let's see if I understand this correctly:
> >
> > BPF lets users write functions and have calls to those functions
> injected at the start of some other function's implementation/when that
> other function is called.
> >
> > And those calls are injected without any kind of fixup/remapping between
> function arguments to the injected function and function arguments to the
> original.
> >
> > You're currently proposing adding the lowered signature to DWARF in some
> way, so that users can write the injected function in terms of the lowered
> signature, and BPF can validate that they match? (so the user has to write
> the injected function to match the lowered signature - and if optimizations
> change they have to change their code?)
>
> Currently we do not really validate BPF program arguments and rely on
> users to check vmlinux BTF to find the signature.
>

OK, so there's a human step here - you want the lowered/optimized signature
in the DWARF, so a tool can print it out in a dump/report of some kind,
that the user reads and then uses to write the callback with the correct
lowered signature?

That seems like a real stretch for DWARF... - some other tool could tell
users what the lowered signature was & users could use that to determine
what signature to write, perhaps? Or are there other uses/needs for the
lowered signature?
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