RE: [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: Work around a pahole limitation with zero-sized struct pagesets

[David Laight]

From: Michal Suchánek
> Sent: 28 May 2021 10:57
> 
> On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 09:49:28AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
...
> > I can see there might be similar issues with the version of libelf-devel
> > (needed by objtool).
> > If I compile anything with gcc 10 (I'm doing build-root builds)
> > I get object files that the hosts 2.30 binutils complain about.
> > I can easily see that updating gcc and binutils might leave a
> > broken objtool unless the required updated libelf-devel package
> > can be found.
> > Statically linking the required parts of libelf into objtool
> > would save any such problems.
> 
> Static libraries are not always available. Especially for core toolchain
> libraries the developers often have some ideas about which of the static
> and dynamic libraris is the 'correct' one that they like to enforce.

The issue is that you want a version of libelf that works with objtool
and the versions of binutils/gcc/clang that the kernel build supports.
If libelf was part of the binutils package this might be ok.
But it isn't and it may end up with people scrambling around to find
a working version to build a kernel (or out of tree module).

	David

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