Squeezing in the BTF id whitelist data into vmlinux object
with BTF section compiled in, with following steps:

  - generate whitelist data with bpfwl
    $ bpfwl .tmp_vmlinux.btf kernel/bpf/helpers-whitelist > ${whitelist}.c

  - compile whitelist.c
    $ gcc -c -o ${whitelist}.o ${whitelist}.c

  - keep only the whitelist data in ${whitelist}.o using objcopy

  - link .tmp_vmlinux.btf and ${whitelist}.o into $btf_vmlinux_bin_o}
    $ ld -r -o ${btf_vmlinux_bin_o} .tmp_vmlinux.btf ${whitelist}.o

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
---
 Makefile                |  3 ++-
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b0537af523dc..3bb995245592 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile

@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ OBJSIZE		= $(CROSS_COMPILE)size
 STRIP		= $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip
 endif
 PAHOLE		= pahole
+BPFWL		= $(srctree)/tools/bpf/bpfwl/bpfwl
 LEX		= flex
 YACC		= bison
 AWK		= awk

@@ -493,7 +494,7 @@ GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS :=
 CLANG_FLAGS :=
 
 export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL BASH HOSTCC KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE LD CC
-export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP OBJSIZE READELF PAHOLE LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL
+export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP OBJSIZE READELF PAHOLE BPFWL LEX YACC AWK INSTALLKERNEL
 export PERL PYTHON PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX
 export KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS LDFLAGS_MODULE
 

diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index d09ab4afbda4..dee91c6bf450 100755
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh

@@ -130,16 +130,26 @@ gen_btf()
 	info "BTF" ${2}
 	LLVM_OBJCOPY=${OBJCOPY} ${PAHOLE} -J ${1}
 
-	# Create ${2} which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
+	# Create object which contains just .BTF section but no symbols. Add
 	# SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all
 	# deletes all symbols including __start_BTF and __stop_BTF, which will
 	# be redefined in the linker script. Add 2>/dev/null to suppress GNU
 	# objcopy warnings: "empty loadable segment detected at ..."
 	${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly \
-		--strip-all ${1} ${2} 2>/dev/null
-	# Change e_type to ET_REL so that it can be used to link final vmlinux.
-	# Unlike GNU ld, lld does not allow an ET_EXEC input.
-	printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
+		--strip-all ${1} 2>/dev/null
+
+	# Create object that contains just .BTF_whitelist_* sections generated
+	# by bpfwl. Same as BTF section, BTF_whitelist_* data will be part of
+	# the vmlinux image, hence SHF_ALLOC.
+	whitelist=.btf.vmlinux.whitelist
+
+	${BPFWL} ${1} kernel/bpf/helpers-whitelist > ${whitelist}.c
+	${CC} -c -o ${whitelist}.o ${whitelist}.c
+	${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF_whitelist* --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly \
+                --strip-all ${whitelist}.o 2>/dev/null
+
+	# Link BTF and BTF_whitelist objects together
+	${LD} -r -o ${2} ${1} ${whitelist}.o