From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: "Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andriin@fb.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
BPF-dev-list <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <borkmann@iogearbox.net>,
"David Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Anders Roxell" <anders.roxell@linaro.org>,
"Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel 5.5.4 build fail for BPF-selftests with latest LLVM
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:28:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200219132856.GA2836367@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200219133012.7cb6ac9e@carbon>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 01:30:12PM +0100, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> Hi Andrii,
>
> Downloaded tarball for kernel release 5.5.4, and I cannot compile
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ with latest LLVM release version 9.
Is this something that recently broke? If so, what commit caused it?
And has llvm 9 always worked here?
> Looking closer at the build error messages, I can see that this is
> caused by using LLVM features that (I assume) will be avail in release
> 10. I find it very strange that we can release a kernel that have build
> dependencies on a unreleased version of LLVM.
Is this the first time you have tried using llvm to build a kernel?
This isn't a new thing :)
> I love the new LLVM BTF features, but we cannot break users/CI-systems
> that wants to run the BPF-selftests.
Is this a regression from older kernels?
And does gcc work?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-19 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-19 12:30 Kernel 5.5.4 build fail for BPF-selftests with latest LLVM Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-19 13:28 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-02-19 13:42 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-19 18:12 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-19 19:40 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-19 20:20 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-19 16:41 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-02-19 17:03 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-19 17:38 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-02-19 18:28 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-19 18:38 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-02-19 20:06 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-19 21:59 ` Daniel Díaz
2020-02-19 22:26 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-02-20 0:27 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-02-20 0:47 ` shuah
2020-02-20 16:37 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2020-02-20 17:02 ` Bird, Tim
2020-02-20 17:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-02-20 17:41 ` Bird, Tim
2020-02-20 19:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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