Re: BPF selftests build failure in 5.10-rc

[Seth Forshee]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:15:35PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:24 PM Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Building the BPF selftests with clang 11, I'm getting the following
> > error:
> >
> >    CLNG-LLC [test_maps] profiler1.o
> >  In file included from progs/profiler1.c:6:
> >  progs/profiler.inc.h:260:17: error: use of unknown builtin '__builtin_preserve_enum_value' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> >                  int cgrp_id = bpf_core_enum_value(enum cgroup_subsys_id___local,
> >                                ^
> >  /home/ubuntu/unstable/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/bpf/bpf_core_read.h:179:2: note: expanded from macro 'bpf_core_enum_value'
> >          __builtin_preserve_enum_value(*(typeof(enum_type) *)enum_value, BPF_ENUMVAL_VALUE)
> >          ^
> >  1 error generated.
> >  llc: error: llc: <stdin>:1:1: error: expected top-level entity
> >  BPF obj compilation failed
> 
> Addressed by fb3558127cb6 ("bpf: Fix selftest compilation on clang 11")

Great, thanks!

> 
> >
> > I see that test_core_reloc_enumval.c takes precautions around the use of
> > __builtin_preserve_enum_value as it is currently only available in clang
> > 12 nightlies. Is it possible to do something similar here? Though I see
> > that the use of the builtin is not nearly so neatly localized as it is
> > in test_core_reloc_enumval.c.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Seth