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Jiri Olsa 51f6463aac tools/resolve_btfids: Fix sections with wrong alignment
The data of compressed section should be aligned to 4
(for 32bit) or 8 (for 64 bit) bytes.

The binutils ld sets sh_addralign to 1, which makes libelf
fail with misaligned section error during the update as
reported by Jesper:

   FAILED elf_update(WRITE): invalid section alignment

While waiting for ld fix, we can fix compressed sections
sh_addralign value manually.

Adding warning in -vv mode when the fix is triggered:

  $ ./tools/bpf/resolve_btfids/resolve_btfids -vv vmlinux
  ...
  section(36) .comment, size 44, link 0, flags 30, type=1
  section(37) .debug_aranges, size 45684, link 0, flags 800, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 16, expected 8
  section(38) .debug_info, size 129104957, link 0, flags 800, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
  section(39) .debug_abbrev, size 1152583, link 0, flags 800, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
  section(40) .debug_line, size 7374522, link 0, flags 800, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
  section(41) .debug_frame, size 702463, link 0, flags 800, type=1
  section(42) .debug_str, size 1017571, link 0, flags 830, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
  section(43) .debug_loc, size 3019453, link 0, flags 800, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 1, expected 8
  section(44) .debug_ranges, size 1744583, link 0, flags 800, type=1
   - fixing wrong alignment sh_addralign 16, expected 8
  section(45) .symtab, size 2955888, link 46, flags 0, type=2
  section(46) .strtab, size 2613072, link 0, flags 0, type=3
  ...
  update ok for vmlinux

Another workaround is to disable compressed debug info data
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED kernel option.

Fixes: fbbb68de80 ("bpf: Add resolve_btfids tool to resolve BTF IDs in ELF object")
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819092342.259004-1-jolsa@kernel.org
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.