Re: (BTF) [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Work around a pahole limitation with zero-sized struct pagesets

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 05:01:17 EST


On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 10:33:42AM +0200, Michal Such?nek wrote:
> > lib/Kconfig.debug | 3 +++
> > mm/page_alloc.c | 11 +++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > index 678c13967580..f88a155b80a9 100644
> > --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> > @@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_BTF
> > config PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
> > def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "119")
> >
> > +config PAHOLE_HAS_ZEROSIZE_PERCPU_SUPPORT
> > + def_bool $(success, test `$(PAHOLE) --version | sed -E 's/v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)/\1\2/'` -ge "122")
> > +
>
> This does not seem workable with dummy-tools.
>
> Do we even have dummy pahole?
>

I don't think so but if PAHOLE_HAS_ZEROSIZE_PERCPU_SUPPORT is broken for
you then the same problem should have happened for the PAHOLE_HAS_SPLIT_BTF
check.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs