Re: [PATCH] rust: fix regexp in scripts/is_rust_module.sh

[Eric Curtin]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 at 15:48, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 12:13:39PM -0300, Martin Rodriguez Reboredo wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 1:19 PM Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 4:26 PM Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > nm can use "R" or "r" to show read-only data sections, but
> > > > scripts/is_rust_module.sh can only recognize "r", so with some versions
> > > > of binutils it can fail to detect if a module is a Rust module or not.
> > >
> > > Do you know which versions? If so, it would be nice to document it here.
> > >
> > > > Moreover, with this patch applied I can also relax the constraint of
> > > > "RUST depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF" and build a kernel with Rust and BTF
> > > > enabled at the same time (of course BTF generation is still skipped for
> > > > Rust modules).
> > >
> > > Even if that build succeeds, can you load the modules? i.e. the
> > > constraint was there due to
> > > https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/735.
> >
> > Issue was that the kernel couldn't even load C modules, Rust CUs must be
> > skipped in vmlinux for it to work, and because of that the constraint
> > !DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE [1] cannot be relaxed until
> > version 1.24+ of Pahole is the minimum requirement by the kernel. I'm OK
> > with this change but keep in mind that it won't remedy that condition.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230111152050.559334-1-yakoyoku@xxxxxxxxx/ [1]
>
> Oh yes, I'm using pahole 1.24, that's probably why it's all working for
> me. So we can't just drop !DEBUG_INFO_BTF, but we can definitely relax
> the constraint to "!DEBUG_INFO_BTF || PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE".

Yup the patch is ok, but we can only build with RUST and
DEBUG_INFO_BTF if we have pahole 1.24+ because that is the version
smart enough to exclude the Rust CUs.

If you have a version of pahole < 1.24 and you want to include RUST
you basically should not have DEBUG_INFO_BTF on at all because your
build will fail (unless this change alters the list of CUs passed to
pahole).

What is a little confusing is scripts/is_rust_module.sh and pahole
"--lang_exclude=rust" feature both attempt to do the same thing,
recognize and skip Rust CUs

>
> -Andrea
>