linux-kernel - [PATCH v1 RESEND] objtool: Also include tools/include/uapi

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Message-ID: <20241008234718.17127-1-elsk@google.com>
Date: Tue,  8 Oct 2024 23:47:17 +0000
From: HONG Yifan <elsk@...gle.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: HONG Yifan <elsk@...gle.com>, kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v1 RESEND] objtool: Also include tools/include/uapi

When building objtool against a sysroot that contains a stripped down
version of the UAPI headers, the following error happens:

    In file included from arch/x86/decode.c:10:
    In file included from .../tools/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h:10:
    In file included from <sysroot>/include/asm/byteorder.h:9:
    In file included from <sysroot>/include/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:15:
    In file included from <sysroot>/include/linux/stddef.h:9:
    In file included from .../tools/include/linux/compiler_types.h:36:
    .../tools/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h:3:2: error: "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
        3 | #error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-gcc.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
        |  ^
    1 error generated.

As hinted by the error, this is because <sysroot>/include/linux/stddef.h
(a stripped-down version of uapi/include/linux/stddef.h) includes
linux/compiler_types.h directly. However, this gets resolved to
tools/include/linux/compiler_types.h, which is not expected to be
included directly.

To resolve this, I added tools/include/uapi to the include paths when
building objtool. With this trick, linux/stddef.h is resolved to
tools/include/uapi/linux/stddef.h, which doesn't include
linux/compiler_types.h.

Signed-off-by: HONG Yifan <elsk@...gle.com>
---
 tools/objtool/Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile
index bf7f7f84ac62..f56e27727534 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ LIBELF_LIBS  := $(shell $(HOSTPKG_CONFIG) libelf --libs 2>/dev/null || echo -lel
 all: $(OBJTOOL)
 
 INCLUDES := -I$(srctree)/tools/include \
+	    -I$(srctree)/tools/include/uapi \
 	    -I$(srctree)/tools/arch/$(HOSTARCH)/include/uapi \
 	    -I$(srctree)/tools/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include	\
 	    -I$(srctree)/tools/objtool/include \
-- 
2.46.0.662.g92d0881bb0-goog