On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 08:09:39AM +0000, David Laight wrote:

From: Andrii Nakryiko

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Sent: 27 May 2021 15:42

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I agree that empty structs are useful, but here we are talking about
per-CPU variables only, which is the first use case so far, as far as
I can see. If we had pahole 1.22 released and widely packaged it could
have been a viable option to force it on everyone. 

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Would it be feasible to put the sources for pahole into the
kernel repository and build it at the same time as objtool?

We don't store other build dependencies like compilers, binutils etc in
the kernel repository even though minimum versions are mandated.
Obviously tools/ exists but for the most part, they are tools that do
not exist in other repositories and are kernel-specific. I don't know if
pahole would be accepted and it introduces the possibility that upstream
pahole and the kernel fork of it would diverge.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs