linux/tools/bpf/bpftool
Quentin Monnet cc9b22dfa7 bpftool: Clean up HOST_CFLAGS, HOST_LDFLAGS for bootstrap bpftool
Bpftool's Makefile uses $(HOST_CFLAGS) to build the bootstrap version of
bpftool, in order to pick the flags for the host (where we run the
bootstrap version) and not for the target system (where we plan to run
the full bpftool binary). But we pass too much information through this
variable.

In particular, we set HOST_CFLAGS by copying most of the $(CFLAGS); but
we do this after the feature detection for bpftool, which means that
$(CFLAGS), hence $(HOST_CFLAGS), contain all macro definitions for using
the different optional features. For example, -DHAVE_LLVM_SUPPORT may be
passed to the $(HOST_CFLAGS), even though the LLVM disassembler is not
used in the bootstrap version, and the related library may even be
missing for the host architecture.

A similar thing happens with the $(LDFLAGS), that we use unchanged for
linking the bootstrap version even though they may contains flags to
link against additional libraries.

To address the $(HOST_CFLAGS) issue, we move the definition of
$(HOST_CFLAGS) earlier in the Makefile, before the $(CFLAGS) update
resulting from the feature probing - none of which being relevant to the
bootstrap version. To clean up the $(LDFLAGS) for the bootstrap version,
we introduce a dedicated $(HOST_LDFLAGS) variable that we base on
$(LDFLAGS), before the feature probing as well.

On my setup, the following macro and libraries are removed from the
compiler invocation to build bpftool after this patch:

  -DUSE_LIBCAP
  -DHAVE_LLVM_SUPPORT
  -I/usr/lib/llvm-17/include
  -D_GNU_SOURCE
  -D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
  -D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
  -D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
  -lLLVM-17
  -L/usr/lib/llvm-17/lib

Another advantage of cleaning up these flags is that displaying
available features with "bpftool version" becomes more accurate for the
bootstrap bpftool, and no longer reflects the features detected (and
available only) for the final binary.

Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20240320014103.45641-1-qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-03-20 23:33:49 -07:00
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bash-completion bpftool: Add support for cgroup unix socket address hooks 2023-10-11 17:27:55 -07:00
Documentation bpftool: Recognize arena map type 2024-03-11 15:37:24 -07:00
skeleton bpftool: Fix missing pids during link show 2024-03-14 13:37:43 -07:00
.gitignore bpftool: Fix SPDX tag for Makefiles and .gitignore 2021-11-10 09:00:52 -08:00
btf.c bpftool: Use bpf_{btf,link,map,prog}_get_info_by_fd() 2023-02-16 15:32:45 -08:00
btf_dumper.c bpftool: Fix printing of pointer value 2023-10-19 16:29:36 +02:00
cfg.c bpftool: Support printing opcodes and source file references in CFG 2023-04-05 21:27:27 -07:00
cfg.h bpftool: Support printing opcodes and source file references in CFG 2023-04-05 21:27:27 -07:00
cgroup.c bpftool: Add support for cgroup unix socket address hooks 2023-10-11 17:27:55 -07:00
common.c bpftool: Support bpffs mountpoint as pin path for prog loadall 2023-05-17 15:58:18 +02:00
feature.c bpfilter: remove bpfilter 2024-01-04 10:23:10 -08:00
gen.c bpftool: Cast pointers for shadow types explicitly. 2024-03-14 13:34:21 -07:00
iter.c bpftool: Support bpffs mountpoint as pin path for prog loadall 2023-05-17 15:58:18 +02:00
jit_disasm.c bpftool: Fix spelling mistake "disasembler" -> "disassembler" 2022-10-26 18:20:22 -07:00
json_writer.c tools: bpftool: json: Fix backslash escape typo in jsonw_puts 2023-03-29 09:48:45 -07:00
json_writer.h tools: bpftool: json: Fix backslash escape typo in jsonw_puts 2023-03-29 09:48:45 -07:00
link.c bpftool: Display cookie for kprobe multi link 2024-01-23 16:05:28 -08:00
main.c bpftool: clean-up usage of libbpf_get_error() 2022-11-20 16:17:46 -08:00
main.h bpftool: Support bpffs mountpoint as pin path for prog loadall 2023-05-17 15:58:18 +02:00
Makefile bpftool: Clean up HOST_CFLAGS, HOST_LDFLAGS for bootstrap bpftool 2024-03-20 23:33:49 -07:00
map.c bpftool: Recognize arena map type 2024-03-11 15:37:24 -07:00
map_perf_ring.c bpftool: Fix error message of strerror 2022-09-30 15:40:46 -07:00
net.c bpftool: Extend net dump with netkit progs 2023-10-24 16:07:32 -07:00
netlink_dumper.c
netlink_dumper.h bpftool: Extend net dump with tcx progs 2023-07-19 10:07:28 -07:00
perf.c bpftool: fix perf help message 2023-08-11 20:54:29 -07:00
pids.c bpftool: Enable libbpf logs when loading pid_iter in debug mode 2024-03-19 23:12:22 -07:00
prog.c bpftool: Silence build warning about calloc() 2024-01-23 14:40:23 -08:00
struct_ops.c bpftool: Wrap struct_ops dump in an array 2023-10-19 16:30:15 +02:00
tracelog.c bpftool, musl compat: Replace sys/fcntl.h by fcntl.h 2022-04-25 23:24:28 +02:00
xlated_dumper.c bpftool: Dump the kernel symbol's module name 2023-07-11 20:07:50 -07:00
xlated_dumper.h bpftool: Dump the kernel symbol's module name 2023-07-11 20:07:50 -07:00