linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: Remove custom build rule

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATb8dbhvdSgiNEMkdsgg93q4ZUGUxReZYNjOV3fDPnfyQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:22:33 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, 
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, 
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bpf: Remove custom build rule

On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 2:07 AM Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> According to the documentation, when building a kernel with the C=2
> parameter, all source files should be checked. But this does not happen
> for the kernel/bpf/ directory.
>
> $ touch kernel/bpf/core.o
> $ make C=2 CHECK=true kernel/bpf/core.o
>
> Outputs:
>
>   CHECK   scripts/mod/empty.c
>   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>   DESCEND objtool
>   INSTALL libsubcmd_headers
>   CC      kernel/bpf/core.o
>
> As can be seen the compilation is done, but CHECK is not executed. This
> happens because kernel/bpf/Makefile has defined its own rule for
> compilation and forgotten the macro that does the check.
>
> There is no need to duplicate the build code, and this rule can be
> removed to use generic rules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>


Did you compile-test this?

See my previous email.




I said this:

$ cat kernel/bpf/btf_iter.c
#include "../../tools/lib/bpf/btf_iter.c"


Same for
kernel/bpf/btf_relocate.c
kernel/bpf/relo_core.c











> ---
>  kernel/bpf/Makefile | 6 ------
>  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Makefile b/kernel/bpf/Makefile
> index 0291eef9ce92..9b9c151b5c82 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -52,9 +52,3 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_PRELOAD) += preload/
>  obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += relo_core.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += btf_iter.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += btf_relocate.o
> -
> -# Some source files are common to libbpf.
> -vpath %.c $(srctree)/kernel/bpf:$(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf
> -
> -$(obj)/%.o: %.c FORCE
> -       $(call if_changed_rule,cc_o_c)
> --
> 2.46.0
>


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada