Re: [PATCH v5 0/3] Kbuild: DWARF v5 support

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Wed Feb 03 2021 - 22:14:50 EST


On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 6:58 PM Andrii Nakryiko
<andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:31 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:14 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> > <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Em Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:43:06PM -0800, Yonghong Song escreveu:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 1/15/21 3:34 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 3:24 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 1/15/21 1:53 PM, Sedat Dilek wrote:
> > > > > > > En plus, I encountered breakage with GCC v10.2.1 and LLVM=1 and
> > > > > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4.
> > > > > > > So might be good to add a "depends on !DEBUG_INFO_BTF" in this combination.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you privately send me your configs that repro? Maybe I can isolate
> > > > > it to a set of configs?
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I suggested not to add !DEBUG_INFO_BTF to CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4.
> > > > > > It is not there before and adding this may suddenly break some users.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If certain combination of gcc/llvm does not work for
> > > > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4 with pahole, this is a bug bpf community
> > > > > > should fix.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a place I should report bugs?
> > > >
> > > > You can send bug report to Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > > dwarves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
> > >
> > > I'm coming back from vacation, will try to read the messages and see if
> > > I can fix this.
> >
> > IDK about DWARF v4; that seems to work for me. I was previously observing
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922698
> > with DWARF v5. I just re-pulled the latest pahole, rebuilt, and no
> > longer see that warning.
> >
> > I now observe a different set. I plan on attending "BPF office hours
> > tomorrow morning," but if anyone wants a sneak peak of the errors and
> > how to reproduce:
> > https://gist.github.com/nickdesaulniers/ae8c9efbe4da69b1cf0dce138c1d2781
> >
>
> Is there another (easy) way to get your patch set without the b4 tool?
> Is your patch set present in some patchworks instance, so that I can
> download it in mbox format, for example?

$ wget https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210130004401.2528717-2-ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx/raw
-O - | git am
$ wget https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210130004401.2528717-3-ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx/raw
-O - | git am

If you haven't tried b4 yet, it's quite nice. Hard to go back. Lore
also has mbox.gz links. Not sure about patchwork.

>
> >
> > (FWIW: some other folks are hitting issues now with kernel's lack of
> > DWARF v5 support: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922707)


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers