Re: [PATCH v2] modpost: Skip .llvm.call-graph-profile section check

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 3:00 AM Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 10:49 AM Denis Nikitin <denik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > .llvm.call-graph-profile section is added by clang when the kernel is
> > built with profiles (e.g. -fprofile-sample-use= or -fprofile-use=).
> >
> > The section contains edge information derived from text sections,
> > so .llvm.call-graph-profile itself doesn't need more analysis as
> > the text sections have been analyzed.
> >
> > This change fixes the kernel build with clang and a sample profile
> > which currently fails with:
> >
> > "FATAL: modpost: Please add code to calculate addend for this architecture"


Curious.

This message is only displayed for REL.

(Please not it is located in section_rel() function)


I think modern architectures use RELA instead of REL.
Which architecture are we talking about?


What does the output of this command look like?

$ llvm-readelf -S vmlinux.o | grep  .llvm.call-graph-profile


Is it REL?









> >
> > Signed-off-by: Denis Nikitin <denik@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks. The new commit message looks good to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> >  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> > index b29b29707f10..64bd13f7199c 100644
> > --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> > +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> > @@ -761,6 +761,7 @@ static const char *const section_white_list[] =
> >         ".fmt_slot*",                   /* EZchip */
> >         ".gnu.lto*",
> >         ".discard.*",
> > +       ".llvm.call-graph-profile",     /* call graph */
> >         NULL
> >  };
> >
> > --
> > 2.42.0.rc1.204.g551eb34607-goog
> >
>
>
> --
> 宋方睿



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Masahiro Yamada