linux-kernel - [RFC v1 0/2] arch: um: turn BTF

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Date:   Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:35:47 -0800
From:   Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
To:     jdike@...toit.com, richard@....at, anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, changbin.du@...el.com,
        yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com, rdunlap@...radead.org,
        keescook@...omium.org, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com
Cc:     linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        davidgow@...gle.com, heidifahim@...gle.com,
        Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
Subject: [RFC v1 0/2] arch: um: turn BTF_TYPEINFO support off

As a part of my quest to get allyesconfig working on UML, I found a new
build error, with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y:

scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: line 106: 17463 Segmentation fault      LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}
objcopy: --change-section-vma .BTF=0x0000000000000000 never used
objcopy: --change-section-lma .BTF=0x0000000000000000 never used
objcopy: error: the input file '.btf.vmlinux.bin' is empty
Failed to generate BTF for vmlinux
Try to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
make: *** [Makefile:1078: vmlinux] Error 1

The most interesting bit seems to be the:

objcopy: error: the input file '.btf.vmlinux.bin' is empty

Thinking about it, I am not sure if it makes sense for UML to produce
BTF type information, so I proposed a fix here that:

 1. Adds the ability for architectures to turn BTF support off.
 2. Turns BTF support off for UML.

I am also totally fine with just saying that DEBUG_INFO_BTF
depends on !UML, but I figured people would prefer this approach more.

Brendan Higgins (2):
  kbuild: add arch specific dependency for BTF support
  arch: um: turn BTF_TYPEINFO support off

 arch/um/Kconfig   | 1 +
 lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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