bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-gen.rst

17 	*COMMAND* := { **skeleton** | **help** }
22 |	**bpftool** **gen skeleton** *FILE*
27 	**bpftool gen skeleton** *FILE*
28 		  Generate BPF skeleton C header file for a given *FILE*.
30 		  BPF skeleton is an alternative interface to existing libbpf
37 		  components by name. Instead, if skeleton instantiation
38 		  succeeds, they are populated in skeleton structure as valid
43 		  programs, skeleton provides a storage for BPF links (**struct
47 		  user in pre-allocated fields in skeleton struct. For BPF
51 		  automatically destroyed on BPF skeleton destruction. This
56 		  Another facility provided by BPF skeleton is an interface to
64 		  During skeleton generation, contents of source BPF object
66 		  necessary to keep around. This ensures skeleton and BPF
71 		  It is a design goal and guarantee that skeleton interfaces
73 		  always be able to use skeleton API to create and load BPF
77 		  As part of skeleton, few custom functions are generated.
84 		    These functions are used to instantiate skeleton. It
105 		    skeleton struct. **example__detach** will detach both
111 		    used by skeleton and BPF object.
175 **$ bpftool gen skeleton example.o**
189   	struct bpf_object_skeleton *skeleton;
281 This is a stripped-out version of skeleton generated for above example code.