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diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_common.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_common.h
index 0967112b933a..b21cefc9c3b6 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_common.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_common.h
@@ -41,6 +41,18 @@
#define __LIBBPF_MARK_DEPRECATED_0_7(X)
#endif
+/* This set of internal macros allows to do "function overloading" based on
+ * number of arguments provided by used in backwards-compatible way during the
+ * transition to libbpf 1.0
+ * It's ugly but necessary evil that will be cleaned up when we get to 1.0.
+ * See bpf_prog_load() overload for example.
+ */
+#define ___libbpf_cat(A, B) A ## B
+#define ___libbpf_select(NAME, NUM) ___libbpf_cat(NAME, NUM)
+#define ___libbpf_nth(_1, _2, _3, _4, _5, _6, N, ...) N
+#define ___libbpf_cnt(...) ___libbpf_nth(__VA_ARGS__, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
+#define ___libbpf_overload(NAME, ...) ___libbpf_select(NAME, ___libbpf_cnt(__VA_ARGS__))(__VA_ARGS__)
+
/* Helper macro to declare and initialize libbpf options struct
*
* This dance with uninitialized declaration, followed by memset to zero,