objtool: Allow building with older libelf

The switch to elf_getshdr{num,strndx} post-dates the oldest tool chain
the kernel is supposed to be able to build with, so try to cope with
such an environment.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for v4.6
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/732dae6872b7ff187d94f22bb699a12849d3fe04.1463430618.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile
index 6765c7e949f35ca3833265a33719f8c6e5baee94..f094f3c4ed84001557503f6cdd8ed33065c86611 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/objtool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ INCLUDES := -I$(srctree)/tools/include
 CFLAGS   += -Wall -Werror $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -g $(INCLUDES)
 LDFLAGS  += -lelf $(LIBSUBCMD)
 
+# Allow old libelf to be used:
+elfshdr := $(shell echo '\#include <libelf.h>' | $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -x c -E - | grep elf_getshdr)
+CFLAGS += $(if $(elfshdr),,-DLIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED)
+
 AWK = awk
 export srctree OUTPUT CFLAGS ARCH AWK
 include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include

diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/elf.h
index 7f3e00a2f9078dca0baf0c67b31106d08c2f2a70..aa1ff6596684f9304d0dd4bd3165f819b4dcdaf7 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/hashtable.h>
 
+#ifdef LIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED
+# define elf_getshdrnum    elf_getshnum
+# define elf_getshdrstrndx elf_getshstrndx
+#endif
+
 struct section {
        struct list_head list;
        GElf_Shdr sh;