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kbuild,bpf: Add module-specific pahole flags for distilled base BTF

Support creation of module BTF along with distilled base BTF;
the latter is stored in a .BTF.base ELF section and supplements
split BTF references to base BTF with information about base types,
allowing for later relocation of split BTF with a (possibly
changed) base. resolve_btfids detects the presence of a .BTF.base
section and will use it instead of the base BTF it is passed in
BTF id resolution.

Modules will be built with a distilled .BTF.base section for external
module build, i.e.

make -C. -M=path2/module

...while in-tree module build as part of a normal kernel build will
not generate distilled base BTF; this is because in-tree modules
change with the kernel and do not require BTF relocation for the
running vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240620091733.1967885-6-alan.maguire@oracle.com

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Alan Maguire and committed by
Andrii Nakryiko
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scripts/Makefile.btf
··· 21 21 # Switch to using --btf_features for v1.26 and later. 22 22 pahole-flags-$(call test-ge, $(pahole-ver), 126) = -j --btf_features=encode_force,var,float,enum64,decl_tag,type_tag,optimized_func,consistent_func,decl_tag_kfuncs 23 23 24 + ifneq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),) 25 + module-pahole-flags-$(call test-ge, $(pahole-ver), 126) += --btf_features=distilled_base 26 + endif 27 + 24 28 endif 25 29 26 30 pahole-flags-$(CONFIG_PAHOLE_HAS_LANG_EXCLUDE) += --lang_exclude=rust 27 31 28 32 export PAHOLE_FLAGS := $(pahole-flags-y) 33 + export MODULE_PAHOLE_FLAGS := $(module-pahole-flags-y)
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scripts/Makefile.modfinal
··· 41 41 if [ ! -f vmlinux ]; then \ 42 42 printf "Skipping BTF generation for %s due to unavailability of vmlinux\n" $@ 1>&2; \ 43 43 else \ 44 - LLVM_OBJCOPY="$(OBJCOPY)" $(PAHOLE) -J $(PAHOLE_FLAGS) --btf_base vmlinux $@; \ 44 + LLVM_OBJCOPY="$(OBJCOPY)" $(PAHOLE) -J $(PAHOLE_FLAGS) $(MODULE_PAHOLE_FLAGS) --btf_base vmlinux $@; \ 45 45 $(RESOLVE_BTFIDS) -b vmlinux $@; \ 46 46 fi; 47 47