In some modes of operation, Kbuild allows to build modules without having
vmlinux image around. In such case, generation of module BTF is impossible.
This patch changes the behavior to emit a warning about impossibility of
generating kernel module BTF, instead of breaking the build. This is especially
important for out-of-tree external module builds.
In vmlinux-less mode:
$ make clean
$ make modules_prepare
$ touch drivers/acpi/button.c
$ make M=drivers/acpi
...
CC [M] drivers/acpi/button.o
MODPOST drivers/acpi/Module.symvers
LD [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
BTF [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
Skipping BTF generation for drivers/acpi/button.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
...
$ readelf -S ~/linux-build/default/drivers/acpi/button.ko | grep BTF -A1
... empty ...
Now with normal build:
$ make all
...
LD [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
BTF [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
...
$ readelf -S ~/linux-build/default/drivers/acpi/button.ko | grep BTF -A1
[60] .BTF PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00029310
000000000000ab3f 0000000000000000 0 0 1
Fixes: 5f9ae91f7c ("kbuild: Build kernel module BTFs if BTF is enabled and pahole supports it")
Reported-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201121070829.2612884-1-andrii@kernel.org
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