On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:04:22AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > What do you suggest as an alternative? > > I added Arnaldo to the cc as he tagged the last released version of > pahole (1.21) and may be able to tag a 1.22 with Andrii's fix for pahole > included. > > The most obvious alternative fix for this issue is to require pahole > 1.22 to set CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF but obviously a version 1.22 that works > needs to exist first and right now it does not. I'd be ok with this but > users of DEBUG_INFO_BTF may object given that it'll be impossible to set > the option until there is a release. Yes, disable BTF. Empty structs are a very useful feature that we use in various places in the kernel. We can't just keep piling hacks over hacks to make that work with a recent fringe feature.
