On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 2:24 PM Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Building the BPF selftests with clang 11, I'm getting the following
> error:
>
> CLNG-LLC [test_maps] profiler1.o
> In file included from progs/profiler1.c:6:
> progs/profiler.inc.h:260:17: error: use of unknown builtin
> '__builtin_preserve_enum_value' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> int cgrp_id = bpf_core_enum_value(enum
> cgroup_subsys_id___local,
> ^
>
> /home/ubuntu/unstable/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/include/bpf/bpf_core_read.h:179:2:
> note: expanded from macro 'bpf_core_enum_value'
> __builtin_preserve_enum_value(*(typeof(enum_type) *)enum_value,
> BPF_ENUMVAL_VALUE)
> ^
> 1 error generated.
> llc: error: llc: <stdin>:1:1: error: expected top-level entity
> BPF obj compilation failed
Addressed by fb3558127cb6 ("bpf: Fix selftest compilation on clang 11")
>
> I see that test_core_reloc_enumval.c takes precautions around the use of
> __builtin_preserve_enum_value as it is currently only available in clang
> 12 nightlies. Is it possible to do something similar here? Though I see
> that the use of the builtin is not nearly so neatly localized as it is
> in test_core_reloc_enumval.c.
>
> Thanks,
> Seth
