linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] scripts/faddr2line: Use LLVM addr2line and readelf if LLVM=1

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Message-ID: <20230725000749.24qsqlqn5llfan7g@treble>
Date:   Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:07:49 -0700
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] scripts/faddr2line: Use LLVM addr2line and readelf
 if LLVM=1

On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 06:45:17PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> GNU utilities cannot necessarily parse objects built by LLVM, which can
> result in confusing errors when using 'faddr2line':
> 
> $ CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260
> aarch64-linux-gnu-addr2line: vmlinux: unknown type [0x13] section `.relr.dyn'
> aarch64-linux-gnu-addr2line: DWARF error: invalid or unhandled FORM value: 0x25
> do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260:
> aarch64-linux-gnu-addr2line: vmlinux: unknown type [0x13] section `.relr.dyn'
> aarch64-linux-gnu-addr2line: DWARF error: invalid or unhandled FORM value: 0x25
> $x.73 at main.c:?
> 
> Although this can be worked around by setting CROSS_COMPILE to "llvm=-",
> it's cleaner to follow the same syntax as the top-level Makefile and
> accept LLVM=1 as an indication to use the llvm- tools.
> 
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

This one looks good to me, I'll go ahead and queue it.

-- 
Josh