libbpf: Add LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE macro for scheduling API deprecat…

…ions

Introduce a macro LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(major, minor, message) to prepare
the deprecation of two API functions. This macro marks functions as deprecated
when libbpf's version reaches the values passed as an argument.

As part of this change libbpf_version.h header is added with recorded major
(LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION) and minor (LIBBPF_MINOR_VERSION) libbpf version macros.
They are now part of libbpf public API and can be relied upon by user code.
libbpf_version.h is installed system-wide along other libbpf public headers.

Due to this new build-time auto-generated header, in-kernel applications
relying on libbpf (resolve_btfids, bpftool, bpf_preload) are updated to
include libbpf's output directory as part of a list of include search paths.
Better fix would be to use libbpf's make_install target to install public API
headers, but that clean up is left out as a future improvement. The build
changes were tested by building kernel (with KBUILD_OUTPUT and O= specified
explicitly), bpftool, libbpf, selftests/bpf, and resolve_btfids builds. No
problems were detected.

Note that because of the constraints of the C preprocessor we have to write
a few lines of macro magic for each version used to prepare deprecation (0.6
for now).

Also, use LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE() to schedule deprecation of
btf__get_from_id() and btf__load(), which are replaced by
btf__load_from_kernel_by_id() and btf__load_into_kernel(), respectively,
starting from future libbpf v0.6. This is part of libbpf 1.0 effort ([0]).

  [0] Closes: libbpf#278

Co-developed-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

src/btf.h

@@ -50,9 +50,11 @@ LIBBPF_API struct btf *libbpf_find_kernel_btf(void);
 
 LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__load_from_kernel_by_id(__u32 id);
 LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__load_from_kernel_by_id_split(__u32 id, struct btf *base_btf);
+LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(0, 6, "use btf__load_from_kernel_by_id instead")
 LIBBPF_API int btf__get_from_id(__u32 id, struct btf **btf);
 
 LIBBPF_API int btf__finalize_data(struct bpf_object *obj, struct btf *btf);
+LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(0, 6, "use btf__load_into_kernel instead")
 LIBBPF_API int btf__load(struct btf *btf);
 LIBBPF_API int btf__load_into_kernel(struct btf *btf);
 LIBBPF_API __s32 btf__find_by_name(const struct btf *btf,

src/libbpf_common.h

@@ -10,13 +10,32 @@
 #define __LIBBPF_LIBBPF_COMMON_H
 
 #include <string.h>
+#include "libbpf_version.h"
 
 #ifndef LIBBPF_API
 #define LIBBPF_API __attribute__((visibility("default")))
 #endif
 
 #define LIBBPF_DEPRECATED(msg) __attribute__((deprecated(msg)))
 
+/* Mark a symbol as deprecated when libbpf version is >= {major}.{minor} */
+#define LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(major, minor, msg)			    \
+	__LIBBPF_MARK_DEPRECATED_ ## major ## _ ## minor		    \
+		(LIBBPF_DEPRECATED("libbpf v" # major "." # minor "+: " msg))
+
+#define __LIBBPF_CURRENT_VERSION_GEQ(major, minor)			    \
+	(LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION > (major) ||				    \
+	 (LIBBPF_MAJOR_VERSION == (major) && LIBBPF_MINOR_VERSION >= (minor)))
+
+/* Add checks for other versions below when planning deprecation of API symbols
+ * with the LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE macro.
+ */
+#if __LIBBPF_CURRENT_VERSION_GEQ(0, 6)
+#define __LIBBPF_MARK_DEPRECATED_0_6(X) X
+#else
+#define __LIBBPF_MARK_DEPRECATED_0_6(X)
+#endif
+
 /* Helper macro to declare and initialize libbpf options struct
  *
  * This dance with uninitialized declaration, followed by memset to zero,