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[v2,09/11] build: add option KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_BTF

Message ID 20220403161453.2113069-10-stijn@linux-ipv6.be
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Stijn Tintel
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Series BPF events and Type Format support | expand

Commit Message

Stijn Tintel April 3, 2022, 4:14 p.m. UTC 
From: Tony Ambardar <itugrok@yahoo.com>

Generate BTF (BPF Type Format) information from DWARF debug info. This is
embedded in the kernel and exported via sysfs as /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux.
BTF data enhances kernel portability and introspection for BPF programs.

Selecting this also enables the dwarves host package which provides the
pahole tool used for BTF encoding.

Test using: "bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux format c"

This needs to depend on KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED not being set,
otherwise we can enable both KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_BTF and
KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED, which will result in undefined behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <itugrok@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
[split DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED into separate commit, add dependency]
Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
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 config/Config-kernel.in | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/config/Config-kernel.in b/config/Config-kernel.in
index a9f4172d7f..a5e9ef477b 100644
--- a/config/Config-kernel.in
+++ b/config/Config-kernel.in
@@ -368,6 +368,20 @@  config KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO
 	help
 	  This will compile your kernel and modules with debug information.
 
+config KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
+
+	bool "Enable additional BTF type information"
+	default n
+	depends on !HOST_OS_MACOS
+	depends on KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO && !KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
+	select DWARVES
+	help
+	  Generate BPF Type Format (BTF) information from DWARF debug info.
+	  Turning this on expects presence of pahole tool, which will convert
+	  DWARF type info into equivalent deduplicated BTF type info.
+
+	  Required to run BPF CO-RE applications.
+
 config KERNEL_DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
 	bool "Reduce debugging information"
 	default y