In some modes of operation, Kbuild allows to build modules without having
vmlinux image around. In such case, generation of module BTF is impossible.
This patch changes the behavior to emit a warning about impossibility of
generating kernel module BTF, instead of breaking the build. This is especially
important for out-of-tree external module builds.
In vmlinux-less mode:
$ make clean
$ make modules_prepare
$ touch drivers/acpi/button.c
$ make M=drivers/acpi
...
CC [M] drivers/acpi/button.o
MODPOST drivers/acpi/Module.symvers
LD [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
BTF [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
Skipping BTF generation for drivers/acpi/button.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
...
$ readelf -S ~/linux-build/default/drivers/acpi/button.ko | grep BTF -A1
... empty ...
Now with normal build:
$ make all
...
LD [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
BTF [M] drivers/acpi/button.ko
...
$ readelf -S ~/linux-build/default/drivers/acpi/button.ko | grep BTF -A1
[60] .BTF PROGBITS 0000000000000000 00029310
000000000000ab3f 0000000000000000 0 0 1
Fixes: 5f9ae91f7c ("kbuild: Build kernel module BTFs if BTF is enabled and pahole supports it")
Reported-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201121070829.2612884-1-andrii@kernel.org
Detect if pahole supports split BTF generation, and generate BTF for each
selected kernel module, if it does. This is exposed to Makefiles and C code as
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES flag.
Kernel module BTF has to be re-generated if either vmlinux's BTF changes or
module's .ko changes. To achieve that, I needed a helper similar to
if_changed, but that would allow to filter out vmlinux from the list of
updated dependencies for .ko building. I've put it next to the only place that
uses and needs it, but it might be a better idea to just add it along the
other if_changed variants into scripts/Kbuild.include.
Each kernel module's BTF deduplication is pretty fast, as it does only
incremental BTF deduplication on top of already deduplicated vmlinux BTF. To
show the added build time, I've first ran make only just built kernel (to
establish the baseline) and then forced only BTF re-generation, without
regenerating .ko files. The build was performed with -j60 parallelization on
56-core machine. The final time also includes bzImage building, so it's not
a pure BTF overhead.
$ time make -j60
...
make -j60 27.65s user 10.96s system 782% cpu 4.933 total
$ touch ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux && time make -j60
...
make -j60 123.69s user 27.85s system 1566% cpu 9.675 total
So 4.6 seconds real time, with noticeable part spent in compressed vmlinux and
bzImage building.
To show size savings, I've built my kernel configuration with about 700 kernel
modules with full BTF per each kernel module (without deduplicating against
vmlinux) and with split BTF against deduplicated vmlinux (approach in this
patch). Below are top 10 modules with biggest BTF sizes. And total size of BTF
data across all kernel modules.
It shows that split BTF "compresses" 115MB down to 5MB total. And the biggest
kernel modules get a downsize from 500-570KB down to 200-300KB.
FULL BTF
========
$ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'; done | awk '{ s += $1 } END { print s }'
115710691
$ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do printf "%s %d\n" $f $(size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'); done | sort -nr -k2 | head -n10
./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko 570570
./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.ko 520240
./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko 503849
./drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko 491777
./fs/xfs/xfs.ko 411544
./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e.ko 403904
./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.ko 398754
./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_core.ko 397224
./fs/cifs/cifs.ko 386249
./fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko 379738
SPLIT BTF
=========
$ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'; done | awk '{ s += $1 } END { print s }'
5194047
$ for f in $(find . -name '*.ko'); do printf "%s %d\n" $f $(size -A -d $f | grep BTF | awk '{print $2}'); done | sort -nr -k2 | head -n10
./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915.ko 293206
./drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko 282103
./fs/xfs/xfs.ko 222150
./drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/mlx5_core.ko 198503
./drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko 198356
./drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2x/bnx2x.ko 113444
./fs/cifs/cifs.ko 109379
./arch/x86/kvm/kvm.ko 100225
./drivers/gpu/drm/drm.ko 94827
./drivers/infiniband/core/ib_core.ko 91188
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110011932.3201430-4-andrii@kernel.org
There was a request to preprocess the module linker script like we
do for the vmlinux one. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/21/512)
The difference between vmlinux.lds and module.lds is that the latter
is needed for external module builds, thus must be cleaned up by
'make mrproper' instead of 'make clean'. Also, it must be created
by 'make modules_prepare'.
You cannot put it in arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/, which is cleaned up by
'make clean'. I moved arch/$(SRCARCH)/kernel/module.lds to
arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/asm/module.lds.h, which is included from
scripts/module.lds.S.
scripts/module.lds is fine because 'make clean' keeps all the
build artifacts under scripts/.
You can add arch-specific sections in <asm/module.lds.h>.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Makefile.lib is included by Makefile.modfinal as well as Makefile.build.
Move modkern_cflags to Makefile.lib in order to simplify cmd_cc_o_c
in Makefile.modfinal. Move modkern_cflags as well for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
I think splitting the modpost and linking modules into separate
Makefiles will be useful especially when more complex build steps
come in. The main motivation of this commit is to integrate the
proposed klp-convert feature cleanly.
I moved the logging 'Building modules, stage 2.' to Makefile.modpost
to avoid the code duplication although I do not know whether or not
this message is needed in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Andrii Nakryiko
Masahiro Yamada
Masahiro Yamada