pahole v1.21 supports the --btf_gen_floats flag, which makes it generate the information about the floating-point types [1]. Adjust link-vmlinux.sh to pass this flag to pahole in case it's supported, which is determined using a simple version check. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/dwarves/YHRiXNX1JUF2Az0A@xxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210331014356.256212-1-iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v1 -> v2: Use a version check instead of probing. v2: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210412215629.17865-1-iii@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ v2 -> v3: Simplify extra_paholeopt handling (it's still useful to have "=" when declaring it to be "-u"-compliant, even though link-vmlinux.sh does not use this flag at the moment). scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh index 3b261b0f74f0..667aacb9261c 100755 --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ vmlinux_link() gen_btf() { local pahole_ver + local extra_paholeopt= if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then echo >&2 "BTF: ${1}: pahole (${PAHOLE}) is not available" @@ -227,8 +228,12 @@ gen_btf() vmlinux_link ${1} + if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "121" ]; then + extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --btf_gen_floats" + fi + info "BTF" ${2} - LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1} + LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${extra_paholeopt} ${1} # Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add # SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all -- 2.29.2
