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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:22:17 -0600
From: Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>,
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bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btf, scripts: rust: drop is_rust_module.sh
Hi Miguel, Andrea,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 04:39:27PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 7:21 AM Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com> wrote:
> >
> > With commit c1177979af9c ("btf, scripts: Exclude Rust CUs with pahole")
> > we are now able to use pahole directly to identify Rust compilation
> > units (CUs) and exclude them from generating BTF debugging information
> > (when DEBUG_INFO_BTF is enabled).
> >
> > And if pahole doesn't support the --lang-exclude flag, we can't enable
> > both RUST and DEBUG_INFO_BTF at the same time.
> >
> > So, in any case, the script is_rust_module.sh is just redundant and we
> > can drop it.
> >
> > NOTE: we may also be able to drop the "Rust loadable module" mark
> > inside Rust modules, but it seems safer to keep it for now to make sure
> > we are not breaking any external tool that may potentially rely on it.
>
> Just to recall the history of these changes:
>
> - The script got added in order to skip the BTF generation in the
> `BTF [M]` step (under `DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES`, which depends on
> `DEBUG_INFO_BTF`).
>
> - A few months later, it was noticed that C modules couldn't be
> loaded if Rust was enabled, due to the base BTF info in `vmlinux`.
> That triggered the eventual addition of `--lang_exclude=` to `pahole`,
> but meanwhile, we made `DEBUG_INFO_BTF` and `RUST` exclusive.
>
> - Now, this patch removes the script because having a newer `pahole`
> also correctly skips the Rust CUs in the `BTF [M]` steps (i.e. and not
> just the `vmlinux` one), since we pass `--lang_exclude=` to both cases
> (`link-vmlinux.sh` and `Makefile.modfinal`), if I understand correctly
> (the script could, in principle, have been removed even before
> `pahole` got the new feature, given the exclusivity of the options).
>
> If this is all correct, then the patch looks good to me. I am Cc'ing
> Arnaldo, Martin and the BPF list.
I believe I authored the original script. This all sounds right to me.
Acked-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>
Thanks,
Daniel
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