linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel

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Date:   Thu, 28 Feb 2019 19:36:17 +0100
From:   Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>
To:     Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@....com>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ast@...nel.org,
        atishp04@...il.com, dancol@...gle.com,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, karim.yaghmour@...rsys.com,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        Manoj Rao <linux@...ojrajarao.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        mhiramat@...nel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        rdunlap@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, yhs@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to
 extend the kernel

On 2/28/19 5:48 PM, Qais Yousef wrote:
> On 02/28/19 17:04, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> On 2/28/19 3:47 PM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:53:43PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
>>>> Hi Joel
>>>>
>>>> On 02/27/19 14:37, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:

[...]

>> The reason for me to stay on v4.20 is that with v5.0-rc8 I don't have ebpf
>> 'raw tracepoint' support any more on my arm64 board. But this issue is not
>> related to your patch though.
> 
> And this is caused by a38d1107f937 (bpf: support raw tracepoints in modules)
> which renamed bpf_find_raw_tracepoint() which bcc-tools relies on to detect if
> raw tracepoints are supported..
> 
> https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/src/python/bcc/__init__.py#L860
> 
> Speaking of fragile depedencies :-)
> 
> I guess the check can be extended to check for both symbols - but it'll stay
> fragile. Not sure if they can do better.
> 
> I filed a bug
> 
> https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/2240

This did the trick for me on v5.0-rc8. Thanks, Qais!