From: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
To: buildroot@buildroot.org
Cc: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux: fix pahole discovery when BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PAHOLE
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:33:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918123409.22775-1-fl@n621.de> (raw)
Around Linux 5.11, upstream started introducing checks that execute
"pahole --version" for feature discovery (e.g. [1]).
However, when building with BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PAHOLE Buildroot
only lists host-pahole in LINUX_DEPENDENCIES, so it isn't available for
the configure step when using BR2_PER_PACKAGE_DIRECTORIES. This results
in the host pahole being used (resulting in host-dependent behavior), or
no pahole being detected at all when the build host doesn't have it
(which will then disable Kconfig options that require it).
Fix this by adding host-pahole to LINUX_KCONFIG_DEPENDENCIES.
A similar issue occurs when running "make linux-menuconfig" and friends
because PATH deliberately gets stripped when pkg-kconfig.mk builds
x_CONFIGURATOR_MAKE_ENV. Explicitly pass the pahole path to fix this.
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h=5f9ae91f7c0dbbc4195e2a6c8eedcaeb5b9e4cbb
Signed-off-by: Florian Larysch <fl@n621.de>
---
linux/linux.mk | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/linux/linux.mk b/linux/linux.mk
index 3599a10b50..cd80904113 100644
--- a/linux/linux.mk
+++ b/linux/linux.mk
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ endif
ifeq ($(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PAHOLE),y)
LINUX_DEPENDENCIES += host-pahole
+LINUX_KCONFIG_DEPENDENCIES += host-pahole
else
define LINUX_FIXUP_CONFIG_PAHOLE_CHECK
$(Q)if grep -q "^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y" $(KCONFIG_DOT_CONFIG); then \
@@ -387,6 +388,9 @@ LINUX_KCONFIG_EDITORS = menuconfig xconfig gconfig nconfig
# therefore host-ccache would be ready, we use HOSTCC_NOCCACHE for
# consistency with other kconfig packages.
LINUX_KCONFIG_OPTS = $(LINUX_MAKE_FLAGS) HOSTCC="$(HOSTCC_NOCCACHE)"
+ifeq ($(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PAHOLE),y)
+LINUX_KCONFIG_OPTS += PAHOLE="$(HOST_DIR)/bin/pahole"
+endif
# If no package has yet set it, set it from the Kconfig option
LINUX_NEEDS_MODULES ?= $(BR2_LINUX_NEEDS_MODULES)
--
2.55.0
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2026-09-18 12:33 Florian Larysch [this message]
2026-10-03 16:31 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] linux: fix pahole discovery when BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_NEEDS_HOST_PAHOLE Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot
2026-10-10 9:23 ` Thomas Perale via buildroot
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