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From: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	 Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>,
	 Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>,
	 Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	 Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	 Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
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	Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
	 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	 Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
	 Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>,
	Song Liu <song@kernel.org>,
	 Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
	 linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	 bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
	 James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>,
	leo.yan@arm.com
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] tools/build: Allow versioning LLVM readelf
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 10:32:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260514-james-perf-llvm-version-v1-4-6cac1a9a4c8d@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260514-james-perf-llvm-version-v1-0-6cac1a9a4c8d@linaro.org>

Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst mentions that readelf is included in the
LLVM toolchain, but it's not currently included in this block.

Add it so that LLVM=... options also apply to readelf. Users in tools/
were Perf which was hardcoding it, and another was the BPF makefile.
Both already include Makefile.include so convert them to use the new
variable.

It also didn't have the cross compile prefix, so either readelf didn't
mind opening cross binaries, or it wasn't working for cross builds.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
---
 tools/lib/bpf/Makefile         | 8 ++++----
 tools/perf/Makefile.perf       | 1 -
 tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
index 168140f8e646..180dca9c57c8 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
@@ -114,12 +114,12 @@ PC_FILE		:= $(addprefix $(OUTPUT),$(PC_FILE))
 
 TAGS_PROG := $(if $(shell which etags 2>/dev/null),etags,ctags)
 
-GLOBAL_SYM_COUNT = $(shell readelf -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) | \
+GLOBAL_SYM_COUNT = $(shell $(READELF) -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) | \
 			   cut -d "@" -f1 | sed 's/_v[0-9]_[0-9]_[0-9].*//' | \
 			   sed 's/\[.*\]//' | \
 			   awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND|ABS/ {print $$NF}' | \
 			   sort -u | wc -l)
-VERSIONED_SYM_COUNT = $(shell readelf --dyn-syms --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so | \
+VERSIONED_SYM_COUNT = $(shell $(READELF) --dyn-syms --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so | \
 			      sed 's/\[.*\]//' | \
 			      awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND|ABS/ {print $$NF}' | \
 			      grep -Eo '[^ ]+@LIBBPF_' | cut -d@ -f1 | sort -u | wc -l)
@@ -182,12 +182,12 @@ check_abi: $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so $(VERSION_SCRIPT)
 		     "versioned symbols in $^ ($(VERSIONED_SYM_COUNT))." \
 		     "Please make sure all LIBBPF_API symbols are"	 \
 		     "versioned in $(VERSION_SCRIPT)." >&2;		 \
-		readelf -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) |			 \
+		$(READELF) -s --wide $(BPF_IN_SHARED) |			 \
 		    cut -d "@" -f1 | sed 's/_v[0-9]_[0-9]_[0-9].*//' |	 \
 		    sed 's/\[.*\]//' |					 \
 		    awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND/ {print $$NF}'|  \
 		    sort -u > $(OUTPUT)libbpf_global_syms.tmp;		 \
-		readelf --dyn-syms --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so |		 \
+		$(READELF) --dyn-syms --wide $(OUTPUT)libbpf.so |		 \
 		    sed 's/\[.*\]//' |					 \
 		    awk '/GLOBAL/ && /DEFAULT/ && !/UND|ABS/ {print $$NF}'|  \
 		    grep -Eo '[^ ]+@LIBBPF_' | cut -d@ -f1 |		 \
diff --git a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
index 0aba14f22a06..63276bf55856 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
+++ b/tools/perf/Makefile.perf
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ FLEX    ?= flex
 BISON   ?= bison
 STRIP   = strip
 AWK     = awk
-READELF ?= readelf
 
 # include Makefile.config by default and rule out
 # non-config cases
diff --git a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
index e81e5b479c56..380ad84ac51e 100644
--- a/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
+++ b/tools/scripts/Makefile.include
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ ifneq ($(LLVM),)
   $(call allow-override,LLC,$(LLVM_PREFIX)llc$(LLVM_SUFFIX))
   $(call allow-override,LLVM_CONFIG,$(LLVM_PREFIX)llvm-config$(LLVM_SUFFIX))
   $(call allow-override,LLVM_OBJCOPY,$(LLVM_PREFIX)llvm-objcopy$(LLVM_SUFFIX))
+  $(call allow-override,READELF,$(LLVM_PREFIX)llvm-readelf$(LLVM_SUFFIX))
 else
   # Allow setting various cross-compile vars or setting CROSS_COMPILE as a prefix.
   $(call allow-override,CC,$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc)
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ else
   $(call allow-override,LD,$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld)
   $(call allow-override,CXX,$(CROSS_COMPILE)g++)
   $(call allow-override,STRIP,$(CROSS_COMPILE)strip)
+  $(call allow-override,READELF,$(CROSS_COMPILE)readelf)
 
   # Host versions aren't prefixed
   $(call allow-override,HOSTAR,ar)

-- 
2.34.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-14  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-14  9:32 [PATCH 0/6] tools/build: Allow versioning of all LLVM tools James Clark
2026-05-14  9:32 ` [PATCH 1/6] tools/build: Allow versioning of all LLVM tools defined in Makefile.include James Clark
2026-05-14 10:02   ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-05-14 10:13     ` James Clark
2026-05-14  9:32 ` [PATCH 2/6] tools/build: Indent if else blocks James Clark
2026-05-14  9:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] selftests: Remove unused LLD variable James Clark
2026-05-14  9:32 ` James Clark [this message]
2026-05-14  9:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] tools/build: selftests: Allow versioning LLVM lld James Clark
2026-05-14 18:45   ` sashiko-bot
2026-05-15  8:25     ` James Clark
2026-05-14  9:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] tools/build: selftests: Remove some duplicate toolchain definitions James Clark

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