[PATCH RFC 2/3] samples/bpf: Add define __EMITTING_BPF__ when building BPF

David Daney david.daney at cavium.com
Thu Jun 15 15:35:42 PDT 2017


... this allows gating of inline assembly code that causes llvm to
fail when emitting BPF.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney at cavium.com>
---
 samples/bpf/Makefile | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/bpf/Makefile b/samples/bpf/Makefile
index a0561dc762fe..4979e6b56662 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/Makefile
+++ b/samples/bpf/Makefile
@@ -193,12 +193,12 @@ $(src)/*.c: verify_target_bpf
 
 $(obj)/tracex5_kern.o: $(obj)/syscall_nrs.h
 
-# asm/sysreg.h - inline assembly used by it is incompatible with llvm.
-# But, there is no easy way to fix it, so just exclude it since it is
-# useless for BPF samples.
+# __EMITTING_BPF__ used to exclude inline assembly, which cannot be
+# emitted in BPF code.
 $(obj)/%.o: $(src)/%.c
 	$(CLANG) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(LINUXINCLUDE) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) \
-		-D__KERNEL__ -D__ASM_SYSREG_H -Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign \
+		-D__KERNEL__ -D__EMITTING_BPF__ \
+		-Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign \
 		-Wno-compare-distinct-pointer-types \
 		-Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end \
 		-Wno-address-of-packed-member -Wno-tautological-compare \
-- 
2.11.0




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