Yonghong Song 223f903e9c bpf: Rename BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG
Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.

After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).

This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].

 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199

Fixes: b5ea834dde ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd1036 ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec0 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
2021-10-18 18:35:36 -07:00
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