Support creation of module BTF along with distilled base BTF;
the latter is stored in a .BTF.base ELF section and supplements
split BTF references to base BTF with information about base types,
allowing for later relocation of split BTF with a (possibly
changed) base.  resolve_btfids detects the presence of a .BTF.base
section and will use it instead of the base BTF it is passed in
BTF id resolution.

Modules will be built with a distilled .BTF.base section for external
module build, i.e.

make -C. -M=path2/module

...while in-tree module build as part of a normal kernel build will
not generate distilled base BTF; this is because in-tree modules
change with the kernel and do not require BTF relocation for the
running vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240620091733.1967885-6-a...

With [0], pahole can now discover kfuncs and inject DECL_TAG
into BTF. With this commit, we will start shipping said DECL_TAGs
to downstream consumers if pahole supports it.

This is useful for feature probing kfuncs as well as generating
compilable prototypes. This is particularly important as kfuncs
do not have stable ABI.

[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/commit/?id=72e88f29c6f7e14201756e65bd66157427a61aaf



Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/324aac5c627bddb80d9968c30df6382846994cc8.1718207789.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz


Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

There is no need to set the pahole v1.25-only flags in an
"ifeq" version clause; we are already in a <= v1.25 branch
of "ifeq", so that combined with a "test-ge" v1.25 ensures the
flags will be applied for v1.25 only.

Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240514162716.2448265-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com


Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

The btf_features list can be used for pahole v1.26 and later -
it is useful because if a feature is not yet implemented it will
not exit with a failure message.  This will allow us to add feature
requests to the pahole options without having to check pahole versions
in future; if the version of pahole supports the feature it will be
added.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240507135514.490467-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com

scripts/pahole-flags.sh is executed so many times.

You can confirm it, as follows:

  $ cat <<EOF >> scripts/pahole-flags.sh
  > echo "scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed" >&2
  > EOF

  $ make -s
  scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed
  scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed
  scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed
  scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed
  scripts/pahole-flags.sh was executed
    [ lots of repeated lines... ]

This scripts is executed more than 20 times during the kernel build
because PAHOLE_FLAGS is a recursively expanded variable and exported
to sub-processes.

With GNU Make >= 4.4, it is executed more than 60 times because
exported variables are also passed to other $(shell ) invocations.
Without careful coding, it is known to cause an exponential fork
explosion. [1]

The use of $(shell ) in an exported recursive variable is likely wrong
because $(shell ) is always evaluated due to the 'export' keyword, and
the evaluation can occur multiple times by the nature of recursive
variables.

Convert the shell script to a Makefile, which is included only when
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y.

[1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?64746



Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>