Em Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 03:05:00PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu: > Em Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 11:25:10PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu: > > With upcoming changes to pahole, that change the way how and > > which kernel functions are stored in BTF data, we need a way > > to recognize iterator functions. > > > > Iterator functions need to be in BTF data, but have no real > > body and are currently placed in .init.text section, so they > > are freed after kernel init and are filtered out of BTF data > > because of that. > > > > The solution is to place these functions under new section: > > .init.bpf.preserve_type > > > > And add 2 new symbols to mark that area: > > __init_bpf_preserve_type_begin > > __init_bpf_preserve_type_end > > > > The code in pahole responsible for picking up the functions will > > be able to recognize functions from this section and add them to > > the BTF data and filter out all other .init.text functions. > > This isn't applying on torvalds/master: > > [acme@five linux]$ patch -p1 < /wb/1.patch > patching file include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h > Hunk #2 succeeded at 754 (offset 1 line). > patching file include/linux/bpf.h > Hunk #1 succeeded at 1276 (offset -1 lines). > patching file include/linux/init.h > Hunk #1 FAILED at 52. > 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/init.h.rej > [acme@five linux]$ > [acme@five linux]$ cat include/linux/init.h.rej > --- include/linux/init.h > +++ include/linux/init.h > @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ > #define __initconst __section(.init.rodata) > #define __exitdata __section(.exit.data) > #define __exit_call __used __section(.exitcall.exit) > +#define __init_bpf_preserve_type __section(.init.bpf.preserve_type) > > /* > * modpost check for section mismatches during the kernel build. > [acme@five linux]$ > > > I'm fixing it up by hand to try together with pahole's patches. Due to: 33def8498fdde180 ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")") I'm using this now: diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h index 7b53cb3092ee9956..a7c71e3b5f9a1d65 100644 --- a/include/linux/init.h +++ b/include/linux/init.h @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ #define __initconst __section(".init.rodata") #define __exitdata __section(".exit.data") #define __exit_call __used __section(".exitcall.exit") +#define __init_bpf_preserve_type __section(".init.bpf.preserve_type") /* * modpost check for section mismatches during the kernel build.