On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> wrote:
> On 08/31/2017 01:27 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:16:39 +0300
>> Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Fix compilation error below:
>>>
>>> $ make samples/bpf/
>>>
>>> LLVM ERROR: 'xdp_redirect_dummy' label emitted multiple times to
>>> assembly file
>>> make[1]: *** [samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_kern.o] Error 1
>>> make: *** [samples/bpf/] Error 2
>>>
>>> Fixes: 306da4e685b4 ("samples/bpf: xdp_redirect load XDP dummy prog on TX
>>> device")
>>> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com>
>>> ---
>>
>>
>> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@redhat.com>
>
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
>
>> What LLVM/clang version do you use?
>>
>> I don't see this compile error, and I have:
>> $ clang --version
>> clang version 3.9.1 (tags/RELEA
>
>
> I'm seeing the error as well with a fairly recent LLVM from git
> tree (6.0.0git-2d810c2).
>
> Looks like the llvm error is triggered when section name and
> the function name for XDP prog is the same. Changing either the
> function or the section name right above resolves the issue. If
> such error didn't trigger on older versions, people could be
> using such naming scheme as done here, so seems to me like a
> regression on LLVM side we might need to look at ...
Martin fixed a similar bug earlier:
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commit a2e8bbd2ef5457485f00b6b947bbbfa2778e5b1e
Author: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com>
Date: Thu Jun 8 22:30:17 2017 -0700
bpf: Fix test_obj_id.c for llvm 5.0
llvm 5.0 does not like the section name and the function name
to be the same:
...
=====
gcc also has this behavior. Section name is treated as global
and hence cannot collide with a function name...
