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

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 3:24 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 03:13:18PM +0100, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:31 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
> > >
> >
> > I switched to LLVM v12 from <apt.llvm.org> and saw the same FAILED line.
> >
> > The generated vmlinux file is cleaned on failure.
> >
> > + 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
>
> did pahole generated the .BTF section? earlier in the log
>
> jirka
>

Cannot say.

I did:

$ git diff
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 2d0b28758aa5..c6e679d08bbe 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -401,12 +401,6 @@ fi

vmlinux_link vmlinux "${kallsymso}" ${btf_vmlinux_bin_o}

-# fill in BTF IDs
-if [ -n "${CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF}" -a -n "${CONFIG_BPF}" ]; then
-       info BTFIDS vmlinux
-       ${RESOLVE_BTFIDS} vmlinux
-fi
-
if [ -n "${CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT}" ]; then
       info SORTTAB vmlinux
       if ! sorttable vmlinux; then

- Sedat -



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