bpf: Prevent .BTF section elimination
authorTony Ambardar <tony.ambardar@gmail.com>
Sun, 20 Sep 2020 05:01:34 +0000 (22:01 -0700)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:50:44 +0000 (21:50 +0200)
commit65c204398928f9c79f1a29912b410439f7052635
tree4c5e8a30ef866a06423b426ef05fee560eca03c8
parente23bb04b0c938588eae41b7f4712b722290ed2b8
bpf: Prevent .BTF section elimination

Systems with memory or disk constraints often reduce the kernel footprint
by configuring LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION. However, this can result in
removal of any BTF information.

Use the KEEP() macro to preserve the BTF data as done with other important
sections, while still allowing for smaller kernels.

Fixes: 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/a635b5d3e2da044e7b51ec1315e8910fbce0083f.1600417359.git.Tony.Ambardar@gmail.com
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h