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scripts/gen-btf.sh: Ensure initial object in gen_btf_o is ELF with correct endianness

After commit 600605853f87 ("scripts/gen-btf.sh: Fix .btf.o generation
when compiling for RISCV"), there is an error from llvm-objcopy when
CONFIG_LTO_CLANG is enabled:

llvm-objcopy: error: '.tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o': The file was not recognized as a valid object file
Failed to generate BTF for vmlinux

KBUILD_CFLAGS includes CC_FLAGS_LTO, which makes clang emit an LLVM IR
object, rather than an ELF one as expected by llvm-objcopy.

Most areas of the kernel deal with this by filtering out CC_FLAGS_LTO
from KBUILD_CFLAGS for the particular object or directory but this is
not so easy to do in bash. Just include '-fno-lto' after KBUILD_CFLAGS
to ensure an ELF object is consistently created as the initial .o file.

Additionally, while there is no reported or discovered bug yet, the
absence of KBUILD_CPPFLAGS from this command could result in incorrect
endianness because KBUILD_CPPFLAGS typically contains '-mbig-endian' and
'-mlittle-endian' so that biendian toolchains can be used. Include it in
this ${CC} command to hopefully limit necessary changes to this command
for the foreseeable future.

Fixes: 600605853f87 ("scripts/gen-btf.sh: Fix .btf.o generation when compiling for RISCV")
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260106-fix-gen-btf-sh-lto-v2-1-01d3e1c241c4@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

authored by

Nathan Chancellor and committed by
Alexei Starovoitov
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scripts/gen-btf.sh
··· 87 87 # SHF_ALLOC because .BTF will be part of the vmlinux image. --strip-all 88 88 # deletes all symbols including __start_BTF and __stop_BTF, which will 89 89 # be redefined in the linker script. 90 - echo "" | ${CC} ${CLANG_FLAGS} ${KBUILD_CFLAGS} -c -x c -o ${btf_data} - 90 + echo "" | ${CC} ${CLANG_FLAGS} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS} ${KBUILD_CFLAGS} -fno-lto -c -x c -o ${btf_data} - 91 91 ${OBJCOPY} --add-section .BTF=${ELF_FILE}.BTF \ 92 92 --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly ${btf_data} 93 93 ${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --strip-all ${btf_data}