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SubjectRe: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf: Disable -Wmissing-declarations for globally-linked kfuncs
On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 8:38 PM Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> wrote:
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>
>
> On 8/16/23 8:06 AM, David Vernet wrote:
> > We recently got an lkp warning about missing declarations, as in e.g.
> > [0]. This warning is largely redundant with -Wmissing-prototypes, which
> > we already disable for kfuncs that have global linkage and are meant to
> > be exported in BTF, and called from BPF programs. Let's also disable
> > -Wmissing-declarations for kfuncs. For what it's worth, I wasn't able to
> > reproduce the warning even on W <= 3, so I can't actually be 100% sure
> > this fixes the issue.
> >
> > [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202308162115.Hn23vv3n-lkp@intel.com/
>
> Okay, I just got a similar email to [0] which complains
> bpf_obj_new_impl, ..., bpf_cast_to_kern_ctx
> missing declarations.
>
> In the email, the used compiler is
> compiler: gcc-7 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-6ubuntu2) 7.5.0
>
> Unfortunately, I did not have gcc-7 to verify this.
> Also, what is the minimum gcc version kernel supports? 5.1?

pahole and BTF might be broken in such old GCC too.
Maybe we should add:
config BPF_SYSCALL
depends on GCC_VERSION >= 90000 || CLANG_VERSION >= 130000

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