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Date:   Wed, 8 Jan 2020 16:25:09 +0000
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>,
        "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@...nel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "daniel@...earbox.net" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "bpf@...r.kernel.org" <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kernel Team" <Kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/6] libbpf: Collect static vs global info about
 functions



On 1/8/20 2:25 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org> writes:
> 
>> Collect static vs global information about BPF functions from ELF file and
>> improve BTF with this additional info if llvm is too old and doesn't emit it on
>> its own.
> 
> Has the support for this actually landed in LLVM yet? I tried grep'ing
> in the commit log and couldn't find anything...

It has not landed yet. The commit link is:
    https://reviews.llvm.org/D71638

I will try to land the patch in the next couple of days once this series
of patch is merged or the principle of the patch is accepted.

> 
> [...]
>> @@ -313,6 +321,7 @@ struct bpf_object {
>>   	bool loaded;
>>   	bool has_pseudo_calls;
>>   	bool relaxed_core_relocs;
>> +	bool llvm_emits_func_linkage;
> 
> Nit: s/llvm/compiler/? Presumably GCC will also support this at some
> point?
> 
> -Toke
>