perf tools: Options being passed to clang when building the BPF part of skels

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Aug 22 2023 - 08:33:23 EST


Hi,

On gentoo I'm noticing this:

clang-16clang-16: : clang-16error: : error: clang-16clang-16: clang-16clang-16clang-16: clang-16error: clang-16: : ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]: : : clang-16error: ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]error: error: :
error:
error: error: error: ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]error: ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]

ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]

ignoring '-fstack-protector-strong' option as it is not currently supported for target 'bpf' [-Werror,-Woption-ignored]

And while just doing:

diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index a5dd1ba..7726b57 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ else
endif

$(SKEL_TMP_OUT)/%.bpf.o: util/bpf_skel/%.bpf.c $(LIBBPF) $(SKEL_OUT)/vmlinux.h | $(SKEL_TMP_OUT)
- $(QUIET_CLANG)$(CLANG) -g -O2 --target=bpf -Wall -Werror $(BPF_INCLUDE) $(TOOLS_UAPI_INCLUDE) \
+ $(QUIET_CLANG)$(CLANG) -g -O2 --target=bpf -Wall -Werror -Wno-option-ignored $(BPF_INCLUDE) $(TOOLS_UAPI_INCLUDE) \
-c $(filter util/bpf_skel/%.bpf.c,$^) -o $@

$(SKEL_OUT)/%.skel.h: $(SKEL_TMP_OUT)/%.bpf.o | $(BPFTOOL)


"Fixes" it, I'm curious as where is that we're setting up the options
that are being passed to clang at:

tools/perf/Makefile.perf

$(SKEL_TMP_OUT)/%.bpf.o: util/bpf_skel/%.bpf.c $(LIBBPF) $(SKEL_OUT)/vmlinux.h | $(SKEL_TMP_OUT)
$(QUIET_CLANG)$(CLANG) -g -O2 --target=bpf -Wall -Werror $(BPF_INCLUDE) $(TOOLS_UAPI_INCLUDE) \
-c $(filter util/bpf_skel/%.bpf.c,$^) -o $@

Perhaps it is plain just using CFLAGS? I.e. maybe the native build
CFLAGS is being passed to the BPF target clang calls?

Ideas?

- Arnaldo