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authorMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>2026-08-16 15:32:33 +0200
committerMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>2026-08-23 21:27:17 +0200
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kbuild: rust: keep Rust objects out of Clang LTO with inline helpersgrafted
Under `CONFIG_LTO_CLANG` + `CONFIG_RUST_INLINE_HELPERS`, one may hit `objtool` errors such as: vmlinux.o: error: objtool: _R..._3Gsp4boot+0xd6a: can't find jump dest instruction at .text._R..._3Gsp4boot+0x1dfd The reason is that in such builds, the Clang invocation that compiles the combined Rust plus helpers bitcode emits LLVM bitcode (again) -- the final code generation happens in the linker's LTO step, which the `-mllvm` trap options passed to Clang do not reach. This, in turn, means that unreachable traps are missing, and the impossible paths do not merely fallthrough to the next symbol, but past the end of their own section, since LTO builds place each function in its own section. Thus filter `CC_FLAGS_LTO` out of the Clang invocation, so that it always emits machine code directly, with the traps in place. Assisted-by: LLM Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org> Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Cc: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3a2486cc1da5 ("kbuild: rust: provide an option to inline C helpers into Rust") Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260816133233.197500-2-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+# Copyright (c) 2025 Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+#
+# This script generates BTF data for the provided ELF file.
+#
+# Kernel BTF generation involves these conceptual steps:
+# 1. pahole generates BTF from DWARF data
+# 2. resolve_btfids applies kernel-specific btf2btf
+# transformations and computes data for .BTF_ids section
+# 3. the result gets linked/objcopied into the target binary
+#
+# How step (3) should be done differs between vmlinux, and
+# kernel modules, which is the primary reason for the existence
+# of this script.
+#
+# For modules the script expects vmlinux passed in as --btf_base.
+# Generated .BTF, .BTF.base and .BTF_ids sections become embedded
+# into the input ELF file with objcopy.
+#
+# For vmlinux the input file remains unchanged and two files are produced:
+# - ${1}.btf.o ready for linking into vmlinux
+# - ${1}.BTF_ids with .BTF_ids data blob
+# This output is consumed by scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+
+set -e
+
+usage()
+{
+ echo "Usage: $0 [--btf_base <file>] <target ELF file>"
+ exit 1
+}
+
+BTF_BASE=""
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+ case "$1" in
+ --btf_base)
+ BTF_BASE="$2"
+ shift 2
+ ;;
+ -*)
+ echo "Unknown option: $1" >&2
+ usage
+ ;;
+ *)
+ break
+ ;;
+ esac
+done
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+ usage
+fi
+
+ELF_FILE="$1"
+shift
+
+is_enabled() {
+ grep -q "^$1=y" ${objtree}/include/config/auto.conf
+}
+
+case "${KBUILD_VERBOSE}" in
+*1*)
+ set -x
+ ;;
+esac
+
+gen_btf_data()
+{
+ btf1="${ELF_FILE}.BTF.1"
+ ${PAHOLE} -J ${PAHOLE_FLAGS} \
+ ${BTF_BASE:+--btf_base ${BTF_BASE}} \
+ --btf_encode_detached=${btf1} \
+ "${ELF_FILE}"
+
+ ${RESOLVE_BTFIDS} ${RESOLVE_BTFIDS_FLAGS} \
+ ${BTF_BASE:+--btf_base ${BTF_BASE}} \
+ --btf ${btf1} "${ELF_FILE}"
+}
+
+gen_btf_o()
+{
+ btf_data=${ELF_FILE}.btf.o
+
+ # Create ${btf_data} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
+ # SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
+ # deletes all symbols including __start_BTF and __stop_BTF, which will
+ # be redefined in the linker script.
+ echo "" | ${CC} ${CLANG_FLAGS} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS} ${KBUILD_CFLAGS} -fno-lto -c -x c -o ${btf_data} -
+ ${OBJCOPY} --add-section .BTF=${ELF_FILE}.BTF \
+ --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly ${btf_data}
+ ${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --strip-all ${btf_data}
+
+ # Change e_type to ET_REL so that it can be used to link final vmlinux.
+ # GNU ld 2.35+ and lld do not allow an ET_EXEC input.
+ if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN; then
+ et_rel='\0\1'
+ else
+ et_rel='\1\0'
+ fi
+ printf "${et_rel}" | dd of="${btf_data}" conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
+}
+
+embed_btf_data()
+{
+ ${OBJCOPY} --add-section .BTF=${ELF_FILE}.BTF ${ELF_FILE}
+
+ # a module might not have a .BTF_ids or .BTF.base section
+ btf_base="${ELF_FILE}.BTF.base"
+ if [ -f "${btf_base}" ]; then
+ ${OBJCOPY} --add-section .BTF.base=${btf_base} ${ELF_FILE}
+ fi
+ btf_ids="${ELF_FILE}.BTF_ids"
+ if [ -f "${btf_ids}" ]; then
+ ${RESOLVE_BTFIDS} --patch_btfids ${btf_ids} ${ELF_FILE}
+ fi
+}
+
+cleanup()
+{
+ rm -f "${ELF_FILE}.BTF.1"
+ rm -f "${ELF_FILE}.BTF"
+ if [ "${BTFGEN_MODE}" = "module" ]; then
+ rm -f "${ELF_FILE}.BTF.base"
+ rm -f "${ELF_FILE}.BTF_ids"
+ fi
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+BTFGEN_MODE="vmlinux"
+if [ -n "${BTF_BASE}" ]; then
+ BTFGEN_MODE="module"
+fi
+
+gen_btf_data
+
+case "${BTFGEN_MODE}" in
+vmlinux)
+ gen_btf_o
+ ;;
+module)
+ embed_btf_data
+ ;;
+esac
+
+exit 0