[RFC v1 0/2] arch: um: turn BTF_TYPEINFO support off

From: Brendan Higgins
Date: Mon Jan 27 2020 - 14:36:00 EST


As a part of my quest to get allyesconfig working on UML, I found a new
build error, with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y:

scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: line 106: 17463 Segmentation fault LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}
objcopy: --change-section-vma .BTF=0x0000000000000000 never used
objcopy: --change-section-lma .BTF=0x0000000000000000 never used
objcopy: error: the input file '.btf.vmlinux.bin' is empty
Failed to generate BTF for vmlinux
Try to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
make: *** [Makefile:1078: vmlinux] Error 1

The most interesting bit seems to be the:

objcopy: error: the input file '.btf.vmlinux.bin' is empty

Thinking about it, I am not sure if it makes sense for UML to produce
BTF type information, so I proposed a fix here that:

1. Adds the ability for architectures to turn BTF support off.
2. Turns BTF support off for UML.

I am also totally fine with just saying that DEBUG_INFO_BTF
depends on !UML, but I figured people would prefer this approach more.

Brendan Higgins (2):
kbuild: add arch specific dependency for BTF support
arch: um: turn BTF_TYPEINFO support off

arch/um/Kconfig | 1 +
lib/Kconfig.debug | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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