Currently, .BTF and .BTF.ext has default alignment of 1.
For example,
$ cat t.c
int foo() { return 0; }
$ clang -target bpf -O2 -c -g t.c
$ llvm-readelf -S t.o
...
Section Headers:
[Nr] Name Type Address Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al
...
[ 7] .BTF PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000167 00008b 00 0 0 1
[ 8] .BTF.ext PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0001f2 000050 00 0 0 1
But to have no misaligned data access, .BTF and .BTF.ext
actually requires alignment of 4. Misalignment is not an issue
for architecture like x64/arm64 as it can handle it well. But
some architectures like mips may incur a trap if .BTF/.BTF.ext
is not properly aligned.
This patch explicitly forced .BTF and .BTF.ext alignment to be 4.
For the above example, we will have
[ 7] .BTF PROGBITS 0000000000000000 000168 00008b 00 0 0 4
[ 8] .BTF.ext PROGBITS 0000000000000000 0001f4 000050 00 0 0 4
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112106
cd40b5a712