Re: [PATCH bpf-next 05/11] samples: bpf: use host bpftool to generate vmlinux.h, not target

[Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 04:15:50AM IST, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> Use the host build of bpftool (bootstrap) instead of the target one
> to generate vmlinux.h/skeletons for the BPF samples. Otherwise, when
> host != target, samples compilation fails with:
>
> /bin/sh: line 1: samples/bpf/bpftool/bpftool: failed to exec: Exec
> format error
>
> Fixes: 384b6b3bbf0d ("samples: bpf: Add vmlinux.h generation support")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@xxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx>

>  samples/bpf/Makefile | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> index 97203c0de252..02f999a8ef84 100644
> --- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -291,12 +291,13 @@ $(LIBBPF): $(wildcard $(LIBBPF_SRC)/*.[ch] $(LIBBPF_SRC)/Makefile) | $(LIBBPF_OU
>
>  BPFTOOLDIR := $(TOOLS_PATH)/bpf/bpftool
>  BPFTOOL_OUTPUT := $(abspath $(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH))/bpftool
> -BPFTOOL := $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)/bpftool
> +BPFTOOL := $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)/bootstrap/bpftool
>  $(BPFTOOL): $(LIBBPF) $(wildcard $(BPFTOOLDIR)/*.[ch] $(BPFTOOLDIR)/Makefile) | $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)
>  	    $(MAKE) -C $(BPFTOOLDIR) srctree=$(BPF_SAMPLES_PATH)/../../ \
>  		OUTPUT=$(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT)/ \
>  		LIBBPF_OUTPUT=$(LIBBPF_OUTPUT)/ \
> -		LIBBPF_DESTDIR=$(LIBBPF_DESTDIR)/
> +		LIBBPF_DESTDIR=$(LIBBPF_DESTDIR)/ \
> +		bootstrap
>
>  $(LIBBPF_OUTPUT) $(BPFTOOL_OUTPUT):
>  	$(call msg,MKDIR,$@)
> --
> 2.35.2
>
>

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Kartikeya