Re: ERROR: INT DW_ATE_unsigned_1 Error emitting BTF type

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Feb 05 2021 - 16:42:50 EST


On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 1:17 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 10:10 PM Nick Desaulniers
> <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > when building with pahole v1.20 and binutils v2.35.2 plus Clang
> > > v12.0.0-rc1 and DWARF-v5 I see:
> > > ...
> > > + info BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
> > > + [ != silent_ ]
> > > + printf %-7s %s\n BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
> > > BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
> > > + LLVM_OBJCOPY=/opt/binutils/bin/objcopy /opt/pahole/bin/pahole -J
> > > .tmp_vmlinux.btf
> > > [115] INT DW_ATE_unsigned_1 Error emitting BTF type
> > > Encountered error while encoding BTF.
> >
> > Yes, I observe this error, too.
> >
> > https://gist.github.com/nickdesaulniers/ae8c9efbe4da69b1cf0dce138c1d2781
> >
> > via v9 of my DWARF v5 series, which should help make this easier to
> > reproduce:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+icZUW3sg_PkbmKSFMs6EqwQV7=hvKuAgZSsbg=Qr6gTs7RbQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#m45ec7e6df4c4b5e9da034b95d7dfc8e2a0c81dac
>
> Thanks Nick for confirming the error.
>
> Ah, I see you passed:
>
> make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 ...
>
> Can you by chance try with KCFLAGS="-fbinutils-version=2.35"?

$ PATH=/path/to/tot/pahole/build:$PATH make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 -j72
KCFLAGS="-fbinutils-version=2.35"
...
BTF .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
[12919] INT DW_ATE_unsigned_1 Error emitting BTF type
Encountered error while encoding BTF.
...
LD vmlinux
BTFIDS vmlinux
FAILED: load BTF from vmlinux: Invalid argument
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers