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Message-ID: <CA+icZUXcsjwXOcoHRL3HSDMbE9thq7G3A9Uvzeg8tbNfLP7dfw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:43:41 +0100
From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bpf: Hoise pahole version checks into Kconfig

On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 7:06 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@...il.com> wrote:
>
> After commit da5fb18225b4 ("bpf: Support pre-2.25-binutils objcopy for
> vmlinux BTF"), having CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled but lacking a valid
> copy of pahole results in a kernel that will fully compile but fail to
> link. The user then has to either install pahole or disable
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF and rebuild the kernel but only after their build
> has failed, which could have been a significant amount of time depending
> on the hardware.
>
> Avoid a poor user experience and require pahole to be installed with an
> appropriate version to select and use CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF, which is
> standard for options that require a specific tools version.
>
> Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>

Thanks for the patch, Nathan,

Might be good to gave a hint to the user if pahole version does not
match requirements?

Feel free to add my:

Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>

- Sedat -



> ---
>  MAINTAINERS               |  1 +
>  init/Kconfig              |  4 ++++
>  lib/Kconfig.debug         |  6 ++----
>  scripts/link-vmlinux.sh   | 13 -------------
>  scripts/pahole-version.sh | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/pahole-version.sh
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index b8db7637263a..6f6e24285a94 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -3282,6 +3282,7 @@ F:        net/core/filter.c
>  F:     net/sched/act_bpf.c
>  F:     net/sched/cls_bpf.c
>  F:     samples/bpf/
> +F:     scripts/pahole-version.sh
>  F:     tools/bpf/
>  F:     tools/lib/bpf/
>  F:     tools/testing/selftests/bpf/
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index b77c60f8b963..872c61b5d204 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ config TOOLS_SUPPORT_RELR
>  config CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
>         def_bool $(success,echo 'void foo(void) { asm inline (""); }' | $(CC) -x c - -c -o /dev/null)
>
> +config PAHOLE_VERSION
> +       int
> +       default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/pahole-version.sh $(PAHOLE))
> +
>  config CONSTRUCTORS
>         bool
>         depends on !UML
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 7937265ef879..70c446af9664 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4
>
>  config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
>         bool "Generate BTF typeinfo"
> +       depends on PAHOLE_VERSION >= 116
>         depends on !DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT && !DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
>         depends on !GCC_PLUGIN_RANDSTRUCT || COMPILE_TEST
>         help
> @@ -274,12 +275,9 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
>           Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
>           DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
>
> -config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
> -       def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119")
> -
>  config DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES
>         def_bool y
> -       depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
> +       depends on DEBUG_INFO_BTF && MODULES && PAHOLE_VERSION >= 119
>         help
>           Generate compact split BTF type information for kernel modules.
>
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index 6eded325c837..eef40fa9485d 100755
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -139,19 +139,6 @@ vmlinux_link()
>  # ${2} - file to dump raw BTF data into
>  gen_btf()
>  {
> -       local pahole_ver
> -
> -       if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then
> -               echo >&2 "BTF: ${1}: pahole (${PAHOLE}) is not available"
> -               return 1
> -       fi
> -
> -       pahole_ver=$(${PAHOLE} --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/')
> -       if [ "${pahole_ver}" -lt "116" ]; then
> -               echo >&2 "BTF: ${1}: pahole version $(${PAHOLE} --version) is too old, need at least v1.16"
> -               return 1
> -       fi
> -
>         vmlinux_link ${1}
>
>         info "BTF" ${2}
> diff --git a/scripts/pahole-version.sh b/scripts/pahole-version.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..6de6f734a345
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/pahole-version.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#
> +# Usage: $ ./scripts/pahole-version.sh pahole
> +#
> +# Print the pahole version as a three digit string
> +# such as `119' for pahole v1.19 etc.
> +
> +pahole="$*"
> +
> +if ! [ -x "$(command -v $pahole)" ]; then
> +    echo 0
> +    exit 1
> +fi
> +
> +$pahole --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'
>
> base-commit: e22d7f05e445165e58feddb4e40cc9c0f94453bc
> --
> 2.30.0
>

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