kbuild: skip per-CPU BTF generation for pahole v1.18-v1.21
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Wed, 19 Oct 2022 08:56:02 +0000 (10:56 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:55:17 +0000 (12:55 +0200)
commitf5f413cb3e8af235c5d310bea9942424fb242c2c
tree89cf1529d1bea1ca53f334cf45cd58a40d0b3e67
parent06481cd9f7f692088bce03244f8cf132018f2fc6
kbuild: skip per-CPU BTF generation for pahole v1.18-v1.21

commit a0b8200d06ad6450c179407baa5f0f52f8cfcc97 upstream.

[small context changes due to missing floats support in 5.10]

Commit "mm/page_alloc: convert per-cpu list protection to local_lock" will
introduce a zero-sized per-CPU variable, which causes pahole to generate
invalid BTF.  Only pahole versions 1.18 through 1.21 are impacted, as
before 1.18 pahole doesn't know anything about per-CPU variables, and 1.22
contains the proper fix for the issue.

Luckily, pahole 1.18 got --skip_encoding_btf_vars option disabling BTF
generation for per-CPU variables in anticipation of some unanticipated
problems.  So use this escape hatch to disable per-CPU var BTF info on
those problematic pahole versions.  Users relying on availability of
per-CPU var BTFs would need to upgrade to pahole 1.22+, but everyone won't
notice any regressions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210530002536.3193829-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh