linux-stable/samples/bpf/README.rst
Tiezhu Yang 628add78b0 bpf, docs: Update build procedure for manually compiling LLVM and Clang
The current LLVM and Clang build procedure in samples/bpf/README.rst is
out of date. See below that the links are not accessible any more.

  $ git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git
  Cloning into 'llvm'...
  fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed
  $ git clone --depth 1 http://llvm.org/git/clang.git
  Cloning into 'clang'...
  fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/clang.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed

The LLVM community has adopted new ways to build the compiler. There are
different ways to build LLVM and Clang, the Clang Getting Started page [1]
has one way. As Yonghong said, it is better to copy the build procedure
in Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst to keep consistent.

I verified the procedure and it is proved to be feasible, so we should
update README.rst to reflect the reality. At the same time, update the
related comment in Makefile.

Additionally, as Fangrui said, the dir llvm-project/llvm/build/install is
not used, BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF is the default option [2], so also change
Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst together.

At last, we recommend that developers who want the fastest incremental
builds use the Ninja build system [1], you can find it in your system's
package manager, usually the package is ninja or ninja-build [3], so add
ninja to build dependencies suggested by Nathan.

  [1] https://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
  [2] https://www.llvm.org/docs/CMake.html
  [3] https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/Pre-built-Ninja-packages

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1611279584-26047-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
2021-01-23 00:09:03 +01:00

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eBPF sample programs
====================
This directory contains a test stubs, verifier test-suite and examples
for using eBPF. The examples use libbpf from tools/lib/bpf.
Build dependencies
==================
Compiling requires having installed:
* clang >= version 3.4.0
* llvm >= version 3.7.1
Note that LLVM's tool 'llc' must support target 'bpf', list version
and supported targets with command: ``llc --version``
Clean and configuration
-----------------------
It can be needed to clean tools, samples or kernel before trying new arch or
after some changes (on demand)::
make -C tools clean
make -C samples/bpf clean
make clean
Configure kernel, defconfig for instance::
make defconfig
Kernel headers
--------------
There are usually dependencies to header files of the current kernel.
To avoid installing devel kernel headers system wide, as a normal
user, simply call::
make headers_install
This will creates a local "usr/include" directory in the git/build top
level directory, that the make system automatically pickup first.
Compiling
=========
For building the BPF samples, issue the below command from the kernel
top level directory::
make M=samples/bpf
It is also possible to call make from this directory. This will just
hide the invocation of make as above.
Manually compiling LLVM with 'bpf' support
------------------------------------------
Since version 3.7.0, LLVM adds a proper LLVM backend target for the
BPF bytecode architecture.
By default llvm will build all non-experimental backends including bpf.
To generate a smaller llc binary one can use::
-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF"
We recommend that developers who want the fastest incremental builds
use the Ninja build system, you can find it in your system's package
manager, usually the package is ninja or ninja-build.
Quick sniplet for manually compiling LLVM and clang
(build dependencies are ninja, cmake and gcc-c++)::
$ git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
$ mkdir -p llvm-project/llvm/build
$ cd llvm-project/llvm/build
$ cmake .. -G "Ninja" -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF;X86" \
-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang" \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DLLVM_BUILD_RUNTIME=OFF
$ ninja
It is also possible to point make to the newly compiled 'llc' or
'clang' command via redefining LLC or CLANG on the make command line::
make M=samples/bpf LLC=~/git/llvm-project/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm-project/llvm/build/bin/clang
Cross compiling samples
-----------------------
In order to cross-compile, say for arm64 targets, export CROSS_COMPILE and ARCH
environment variables before calling make. But do this before clean,
cofiguration and header install steps described above. This will direct make to
build samples for the cross target::
export ARCH=arm64
export CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-"
Headers can be also installed on RFS of target board if need to keep them in
sync (not necessarily and it creates a local "usr/include" directory also)::
make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=~/some_sysroot/usr headers_install
Pointing LLC and CLANG is not necessarily if it's installed on HOST and have
in its targets appropriate arm64 arch (usually it has several arches).
Build samples::
make M=samples/bpf
Or build samples with SYSROOT if some header or library is absent in toolchain,
say libelf, providing address to file system containing headers and libs,
can be RFS of target board::
make M=samples/bpf SYSROOT=~/some_sysroot