Re: Check pahole availibity and BPF support of toolchain before starting a Linux kernel build

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:10 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:46:22AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 02:34:04PM -0800, Tom Stellard wrote:
> > > On 1/11/21 2:31 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 10:30:22PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > >
> > > > SNIP
> > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Building a new Linux-kernel...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > - Sedat -
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/
> > > > > > > [2] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/tc-build/issues/129#issuecomment-758026878
> > > > > > > [3] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/tc-build/issues/129#issuecomment-758056553
> > > > > >
> > > > > > There are no significant bug fixes between pahole 1.19 and master that
> > > > > > would solve this problem, so let's try to repro this.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > You are right pahole fom latest Git does not solve the issue.
> > > > >
> > > > > + info BTFIDS vmlinux
> > > > > + [  != silent_ ]
> > > > > + printf   %-7s %s\n BTFIDS vmlinux
> > > > >   BTFIDS  vmlinux
> > > > > + ./tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids vmlinux
> > > > > FAILED: load BTF from vmlinux: Invalid argument
> > > >
> > > > hm, is there a .BTF section in vmlinux?
> > > >
> > > > is this working over vmlinux:
> > > >   $ bpftool btf dump file ./vmlinux
> > > >
> > > > do you have a verbose build output? I'd think pahole scream first..
> > > >
> > >
> > > It does.  For me, pahole segfaults at scripts/link-vmlinux.sh:131.  This is
> > > pretty easy for me to reproduce.  I have logs, what other information would
> > > be helpful?  How about a pahole backtrace?
> >
> > that'd be great.. I'll try to reproduce, but with the latest clang
> > it will take me some time
>
> reproduced, attached pahole patch fixes it for me,
>
> looks like gcc never left function without name,
> which does not seem to be the case for clang
>
> I'll send full patch later today
>

Thanks for the diff.

Unfortunately, it does not apply on latest pahole git.

$ git describe
v1.19-7-gb688e3597060

- Sedat -

> jirka
>
>
> ---
> diff --git a/btf_encoder.c b/btf_encoder.c
> index c40f059580da..781fb35a2646 100644
> --- a/btf_encoder.c
> +++ b/btf_encoder.c
> @@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ static int collect_function(struct btf_elf *btfe, GElf_Sym *sym)
>                 return 0;
>         if (!elf_sym__value(sym))
>                 return 0;
> +       if (!elf_sym__name(sym, btfe->symtab))
> +               return 0;
>
>         if (functions_cnt == functions_alloc) {
>                 functions_alloc = max(1000, functions_alloc * 3 / 2);
> @@ -620,9 +622,11 @@ int cu__encode_btf(struct cu *cu, int verbose, bool force,
>                 if (!has_arg_names(cu, &fn->proto))
>                         continue;
>                 if (functions_cnt) {
> -                       struct elf_function *func;
> +                       const char *name = function__name(fn, cu);
> +                       struct elf_function *func = NULL;
>
> -                       func = find_function(btfe, function__name(fn, cu));
> +                       if (name)
> +                               func = find_function(btfe, name);
>                         if (!func || func->generated)
>                                 continue;
>                         func->generated = true;
>



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