linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] bpf: makefiles: do not generate empty vmlinux.h

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Message-ID: <b5fcbefa-75d5-b716-10f7-bd7ab1f6ff9b@isovalent.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2022 15:38:34 +0000
From:   Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>
To:     Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
Cc:     Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        bpf@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Mykola Lysenko <mykolal@...com>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] bpf: makefiles: do not generate empty vmlinux.h

2022-12-18 06:35 UTC+0800 ~ Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
> Remove the empty vmlinux.h if bpftool failed to dump btf info.
> The empty vmlinux.h can hide real error when reading output
> of make.
> 
> This is done by adding .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target in related
> makefiles.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...il.com>
> ---
>  tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile           | 3 +++
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +++
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> index 787b857d3fb5..313fd1b09189 100644
> --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile
> @@ -289,3 +289,6 @@ FORCE:
>  .PHONY: all FORCE bootstrap clean install-bin install uninstall
>  .PHONY: doc doc-clean doc-install doc-uninstall
>  .DEFAULT_GOAL := all
> +
> +# Delete partially updated (corrupted) files on error
> +.DELETE_ON_ERROR:

Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@...valent.com>

Thanks!