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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+#ifndef __PERF_LLVM_C_HELPERS
+#define __PERF_LLVM_C_HELPERS 1
+
+/*
+ * Helpers to call into LLVM C++ code from C, for the parts that do not have
+ * C APIs.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/compiler.h>
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+struct dso;
+
+struct llvm_a2l_frame {
+ char* filename;
+ char* funcname;
+ unsigned int line;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Implement addr2line() using libLLVM. LLVM is a C++ API, and
+ * many of the linux/ headers cannot be included in a C++ compile unit,
+ * so we need to make a little bridge code here. llvm_addr2line() will
+ * convert the inline frame information from LLVM's internal structures
+ * and put them into a flat array given in inline_frames. The caller
+ * is then responsible for taking that array and convert it into perf's
+ * regular inline frame structures (which depend on e.g. struct list_head).
+ *
+ * If the address could not be resolved, or an error occurred (e.g. OOM),
+ * returns 0. Otherwise, returns the number of inline frames (which means 1
+ * if the address was not part of an inlined function). If unwind_inlines
+ * is set and the return code is nonzero, inline_frames will be set to
+ * a newly allocated array with that length. The caller is then responsible
+ * for freeing both the strings and the array itself.
+ */
+int llvm_addr2line(const char* dso_name,
+ u64 addr,
+ char** file,
+ unsigned int* line,
+ bool unwind_inlines,
+ struct llvm_a2l_frame** inline_frames);
+
+/*
+ * Simple symbolizers for addresses; will convert something like
+ * 0x12345 to "func+0x123". Will return NULL if no symbol was found.
+ *
+ * The returned value must be freed by the caller, with free().
+ */
+char *llvm_name_for_code(struct dso *dso, const char *dso_name, u64 addr);
+char *llvm_name_for_data(struct dso *dso, const char *dso_name, u64 addr);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* __PERF_LLVM_C_HELPERS */