Is it possible that someone tests with Nick Desaulniers's DWARF v5 patchset? With b4 tool installed: link="https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAKwvOdkZEiHK01OD420USb0j=F0LcrnRbauv9Yw26tu-GRbYkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" b4 -d am $link ...should give you a file which you can directly apply with git tool. File: v3_20201203_ndesaulniers_kbuild_make_dwarf_version_a_choice.mbx As my selfmade LLVM toolchain seems to be no good choice I jumped to gcc-10. I see gazillions of DW_AT_ and DW_TAG_INVALID (0x48) warnings: die__process_inline_expansion: DW_TAG_INVALID (0x48) @ <0x1c2a25e> not handled! This might be due to DWARF version 5 patchset. I did not check DWARF v2 (default) or DWARF v4 choices. Beyond this, I noticed: $ git grep LLVM_OBJCOPY scripts/ tools/ scripts/Makefile.modfinal: LLVM_OBJCOPY=$(OBJCOPY) $(PAHOLE) -J --btf_base vmlinux $@; \ scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1} tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile:LLVM_OBJCOPY ?= llvm-objcopy When only passing gcc-10 as compiler and ld.bfd as linker - LLVM_OBJCOPY=objcopy is passed. Means objcopy from GNU/binutils is used. As far as I understand the code you want here llvm-objcopy (scripts/Makefile.modfinal)? I did a next tryout with gcc-10 and LLVM=1 means use all equivalent LLVM tools to GNU/binutils. Means use llvm-objcopy, llvm-nm, llvm-ar, llvm-objdump, etc. Please see the link below under [1]. En plus, I tried pahole with Jirka "Convulted" Olsa (JCO) fix by passing... PAHOLE=/opt/pahole/bin/pahole ...to my make line. Again I see that DW_TAG_INVALID (0x48) warnings. Can someone enlighten me what that means? Finally, with all that warnings observed I could "successfully" generate Linux-kernel Debian packages. I do NOT install software I do NOT trust - not booted - NoNoNo... Thanks. In the dark, - Sedat - [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/kbuild/llvm.html#llvm-utilities