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This adds comments above five functions in btf.h which document
their uses. These comments are of a format that doxygen and sphinx
can pick up and render. These are rendered by libbpf.readthedocs.org

Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210915021951.117186-1-grantseltzer@gmail.com
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Grant Seltzer authored and Andrii Nakryiko committed Sep 15, 2021
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
/* Copyright (c) 2018 Facebook */
/*! \file */

#ifndef __LIBBPF_BTF_H
#define __LIBBPF_BTF_H
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BTF_BIG_ENDIAN = 1,
};

/**
* @brief **btf__free()** frees all data of a BTF object
* @param btf BTF object to free
*/
LIBBPF_API void btf__free(struct btf *btf);

/**
* @brief **btf__new()** creates a new instance of a BTF object from the raw
* bytes of an ELF's BTF section
* @param data raw bytes
* @param size number of bytes passed in `data`
* @return new BTF object instance which has to be eventually freed with
* **btf__free()**
*
* On error, error-code-encoded-as-pointer is returned, not a NULL. To extract
* error code from such a pointer `libbpf_get_error()` should be used. If
* `libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS)` is enabled, NULL is
* returned on error instead. In both cases thread-local `errno` variable is
* always set to error code as well.
*/
LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__new(const void *data, __u32 size);

/**
* @brief **btf__new_split()** create a new instance of a BTF object from the
* provided raw data bytes. It takes another BTF instance, **base_btf**, which
* serves as a base BTF, which is extended by types in a newly created BTF
* instance
* @param data raw bytes
* @param size length of raw bytes
* @param base_btf the base BTF object
* @return new BTF object instance which has to be eventually freed with
* **btf__free()**
*
* If *base_btf* is NULL, `btf__new_split()` is equivalent to `btf__new()` and
* creates non-split BTF.
*
* On error, error-code-encoded-as-pointer is returned, not a NULL. To extract
* error code from such a pointer `libbpf_get_error()` should be used. If
* `libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS)` is enabled, NULL is
* returned on error instead. In both cases thread-local `errno` variable is
* always set to error code as well.
*/
LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__new_split(const void *data, __u32 size, struct btf *base_btf);

/**
* @brief **btf__new_empty()** creates an empty BTF object. Use
* `btf__add_*()` to populate such BTF object.
* @return new BTF object instance which has to be eventually freed with
* **btf__free()**
*
* On error, error-code-encoded-as-pointer is returned, not a NULL. To extract
* error code from such a pointer `libbpf_get_error()` should be used. If
* `libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS)` is enabled, NULL is
* returned on error instead. In both cases thread-local `errno` variable is
* always set to error code as well.
*/
LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__new_empty(void);

/**
* @brief **btf__new_empty_split()** creates an unpopulated BTF object from an
* ELF BTF section except with a base BTF on top of which split BTF should be
* based
* @return new BTF object instance which has to be eventually freed with
* **btf__free()**
*
* If *base_btf* is NULL, `btf__new_empty_split()` is equivalent to
* `btf__new_empty()` and creates non-split BTF.
*
* On error, error-code-encoded-as-pointer is returned, not a NULL. To extract
* error code from such a pointer `libbpf_get_error()` should be used. If
* `libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS)` is enabled, NULL is
* returned on error instead. In both cases thread-local `errno` variable is
* always set to error code as well.
*/
LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__new_empty_split(struct btf *base_btf);

LIBBPF_API struct btf *btf__parse(const char *path, struct btf_ext **btf_ext);
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