libbpf: Deprecate ambiguously-named bpf_program__size() API

The name of the API doesn't convey clearly that this size is in number
of bytes (there needed to be a separate comment to make this clear in
libbpf.h). Further, measuring the size of BPF program in bytes is not
exactly the best fit, because BPF programs always consist of 8-byte
instructions. As such, bpf_program__insn_cnt() is a better alternative
in pretty much any imaginable case.

So schedule bpf_program__size() deprecation starting from v0.7 and it
will be removed in libbpf 1.0.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211025224531.1088894-5-andrii@kernel.org

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index 449eeed80be6..e1900819bfab 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ LIBBPF_API bool bpf_program__autoload(const struct bpf_program *prog);
 LIBBPF_API int bpf_program__set_autoload(struct bpf_program *prog, bool autoload);
 
 /* returns program size in bytes */
+LIBBPF_DEPRECATED_SINCE(0, 7, "use bpf_program__insn_cnt() instead")
 LIBBPF_API size_t bpf_program__size(const struct bpf_program *prog);
 
 struct bpf_insn;