Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Exclude Rust CUs with pahole

From: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo
Date: Wed Jan 11 2023 - 10:03:22 EST


On 1/8/23 16:19, Eric Curtin wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 15:18, Eric Curtin <ecurtin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 8 Jan 2023 at 02:15, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo
>> <yakoyoku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> [ ... ]
>>
>> If it was me, I would do things more like v1 of the patch (instead
>> just checking pahole version), because this is the only flag set in
>> scripts/Makefile.modfinal, which is a little confusing and
>> inconsistent. It's ok to set --lang_exclude=rust in all cases, as long
>> as pahole_ver is recent enough.
>>
>> +if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "124" ]; then
>> + # see PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE
>> + extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --lang_exclude=rust"
>> +fi
>>
>> But I'm not too opinionated either on this so...
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Curtin <ecurtin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> can be reapplied. I'm gonna test this again to see if it works in a
>> Fedora Asahi rpm build.
>
> After testing I probably have to retract my Reviewed-by tag,
> apologies, bpf and all that did not work with this patch when I built
> in the fedora way, but, the good news is when I alter v1 of the patch
> to just check pahole version like so (instead of the is_enabled
> check):
>
> +if [ "${pahole_ver}" -ge "124" ]; then
> + # see PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE
> + extra_paholeopt="${extra_paholeopt} --lang_exclude=rust"
> +fi
>
> it worked just fine, and that should satisfy the testbot and all the
> other ways we build too. Could we change to that @Martin Rodriguez
> Reboredo ?
>

>From my POV I don't like this way due to it being set regardless whether
or not you are building the kernel with Rust. Though, because it doesn't
affect non `CONFIG_RUST` builds, I _think_ it won't hurt if we use that
way for now. Gonna send v3.

>>
>>
>>> +
>>> vmlinux_link ${1}
>>>
>>> info "BTF" ${2}
>>> --
>>> 2.39.0
>>>
>