Re: Kernel 5.5.4 build fail for BPF-selftests with latest LLVM

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 11:41:44 EST


On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:30 AM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
<brouer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm willing to help out, such that we can do either version or feature
> detection, to either skip compiling specific test programs or at least
> give users a proper warning of they are using a too "old" LLVM version.
...
> progs/test_core_reloc_bitfields_probed.c:47:13: error: use of unknown builtin '__builtin_preserve_field_info' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> out->ub1 = BPF_CORE_READ_BITFIELD_PROBED(in, ub1);

imo this is proper warning message already.