kbuild: skip per-CPU BTF generation for pahole v1.18-v1.21
Commit "mm/page_alloc: convert per-cpu list protection to local_lock" will introduce a zero-sized per-CPU variable, which causes pahole to generate invalid BTF. Only pahole versions 1.18 through 1.21 are impacted, as before 1.18 pahole doesn't know anything about per-CPU variables, and 1.22 contains the proper fix for the issue. Luckily, pahole 1.18 got --skip_encoding_btf_vars option disabling BTF generation for per-CPU variables in anticipation of some unanticipated problems. So use this escape hatch to disable per-CPU var BTF info on those problematic pahole versions. Users relying on availability of per-CPU var BTFs would need to upgrade to pahole 1.22+, but everyone won't notice any regressions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210530002536.3193829-1-andrii@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Cc: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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