Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] kallsyms: fix build without execinfo

[Achill Gilgenast]

On Mon Jun 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM CEST, Achill Gilgenast wrote:
> On Sun Jun 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM CEST, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025 03:45:49 +0200 Achill Gilgenast <fossdd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Some libc's like musl libc don't provide execinfo.h since it's not part
>>> of POSIX. In order to fix compilation on musl, only include execinfo.h
>>> if available (HAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT)
>>> 
>>> This was discovered with c104c16073b7 ("Kunit to check the longest symbol length")
>>> which starts to include linux/kallsyms.h with Alpine Linux' configs.
>>> 
>>> ...
>>>
>>> --- a/tools/include/linux/kallsyms.h
>>> +++ b/tools/include/linux/kallsyms.h
>>> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ static inline const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
>>>  	return NULL;
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +#ifdef HAVE_BACKTRACE_SUPPORT
>>>  #include <execinfo.h>
>>>  #include <stdlib.h>
>>>  static inline void print_ip_sym(const char *loglvl, unsigned long ip)
>>
>> I'm not seeing anything in there which needs execinfo.h.  Can we simply
>> remove the inclusion?
>
> No, since backtrace_symbols is provided by execinfo.h.

Is there some status on it? I saw you picked it in mm-hotfixes-unstable,
but it got dropped out again.

Is there something I can do to push it?

Thanks!