On Fri, May 7, 2021 at 7:58 AM Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We want to use kernel rebuilds as a gating test for toolchain updates.
> Unfortunately, per
>
>   Information for package kernel
>   <https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8>
>
> the last successful rawhide kernel build was on 2021-04-28.
>
> The question is what we should do about build failures like this.
> Should we use non-rawhide kernels for our gating tests?

Well rawhide is generally OK, but it's not unusual for kernels to fail
during the two week upstream merge window, I've seen all arches in x86
cause issues during the merge window. Outside of that things tend to
be OK.

> (The bug appears to be in BTF generation: it is not valid to assume that
> static functions or variables are emitted under their declared names, or
> that they have any particular calling convention or data layout.  It's
> probably best to drop the static if symbols are used for BTF extraction.
> An alternative would be to use __attribute__ ((used)) instead, but then
> the linker won't check for name collisions, which would result in
> incorrect BTF.)

That issue is being dealt with upstream:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/#mb49c7d3d32700fa0e9c8b019fa3bf9d9e0cc3bf5
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