Commit cd40b5a7 authored by Yonghong Song's avatar Yonghong Song
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BPF: set .BTF and .BTF.ext section alignment to 4

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
parent b6b7fe60
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