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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index ac569e197bfa..d09ab4afbda4 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ vmlinux_link()
gen_btf()
{
local pahole_ver
- local bin_arch
- local bin_format
- local bin_file
if ! [ -x "$(command -v ${PAHOLE})" ]; then
echo >&2 "BTF: ${1}: pahole (${PAHOLE}) is not available"
@@ -133,17 +130,16 @@ gen_btf()
info "BTF" ${2}
LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}
- # dump .BTF section into raw binary file to link with final vmlinux
- bin_arch=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep architecture | \
- cut -d, -f1 | cut -d' ' -f2)
- bin_format=$(LANG=C ${OBJDUMP} -f ${1} | grep 'file format' | \
- awk '{print $4}')
- bin_file=.btf.vmlinux.bin
- ${OBJCOPY} --change-section-address .BTF=0 \
- --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc -O binary \
- --only-section=.BTF ${1} $bin_file
- ${OBJCOPY} -I binary -O ${bin_format} -B ${bin_arch} \
- --rename-section .data=.BTF $bin_file ${2}
+ # Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
+ # SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
+ # deletes all symbols including __start_BTF and __stop_BTF, which will
+ # be redefined in the linker script. Add 2>/dev/null to suppress GNU
+ # objcopy warnings: "empty loadable segment detected at ..."
+ ${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly \
+ --strip-all ${1} ${2} 2>/dev/null
+ # Change e_type to ET_REL so that it can be used to link final vmlinux.
+ # Unlike GNU ld, lld does not allow an ET_EXEC input.
+ printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
}
# Create ${2} .o file with all symbols from the ${1} object file