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Message-ID: <20200714090048.GG183694@krava>
Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:00:48 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc:     Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the bpf-next tree

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:16:08PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the bpf-next tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
> 
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/trace/bpf_trace.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/bpf/btf.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/bpf/stackmap.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `net/core/filter.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/trace/bpf_trace.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/bpf/btf.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/bpf/stackmap.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `net/core/filter.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/trace/bpf_trace.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/bpf/btf.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `kernel/bpf/stackmap.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> ld: warning: orphan section `.BTF_ids' from `net/core/filter.o' being placed in section `.BTF_ids'
> 
> Presumably ntroduced by the merge of the resolve_btfids branch.

missing one more #ifdef.. chage below fixes it for me,
it's squashed with the fix for the arm build, I'll post 
both fixes today

thanks,
jirka


---
diff --git a/include/linux/btf_ids.h b/include/linux/btf_ids.h
index fe019774f8a7..2f9754a4ab2b 100644
--- a/include/linux/btf_ids.h
+++ b/include/linux/btf_ids.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 #ifndef _LINUX_BTF_IDS_H
 #define _LINUX_BTF_IDS_H
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
+
 #include <linux/compiler.h> /* for __PASTE */
 
 /*
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@
 asm(							\
 ".pushsection " BTF_IDS_SECTION ",\"a\";       \n"	\
 ".local " #symbol " ;                          \n"	\
-".type  " #symbol ", @object;                  \n"	\
+".type  " #symbol ", STT_OBJECT;               \n"	\
 ".size  " #symbol ", 4;                        \n"	\
 #symbol ":                                     \n"	\
 ".zero 4                                       \n"	\
@@ -83,5 +85,12 @@ asm(							\
 ".zero 4                                       \n"	\
 ".popsection;                                  \n");
 
+#else
+
+#define BTF_ID_LIST(name) u32 name[5];
+#define BTF_ID(prefix, name)
+#define BTF_ID_UNUSED
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF */
 
 #endif
diff --git a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
index 948378ca73d4..a88cd4426398 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/Makefile
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@ else
   MAKEFLAGS=--no-print-directory
 endif
 
+# always use the host compiler
+ifneq ($(LLVM),)
+HOSTAR  ?= llvm-ar
+HOSTCC  ?= clang
+HOSTLD  ?= ld.lld
+else
+HOSTAR  ?= ar
+HOSTCC  ?= gcc
+HOSTLD  ?= ld
+endif
+AR       = $(HOSTAR)
+CC       = $(HOSTCC)
+LD       = $(HOSTLD)
+
 OUTPUT ?= $(srctree)/tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/
 
 LIBBPF_SRC := $(srctree)/tools/lib/bpf/