linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/21] kconfig: add 'success' and 'cc-option' macros

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Message-ID: <CAFkk2KRexq4Up1roVj_KY-ONohYbG2V8K0cm-jO-1ucCCVxv+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 1 Apr 2018 08:28:21 +0200
From:   Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "Luis R . Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/21] kconfig: add 'success' and 'cc-option' macros

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 7:29 AM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
> 'cc-option' will be the most frequently used macro.  It evaluates to 'y'
> if the given argument is supported by the compiler, or 'n' otherwise.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - Implement 'success' as a macro
>
>  init/Kconfig | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 0d6fe20..c456030 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ config DEFCONFIG_LIST
>         default ARCH_DEFCONFIG
>         default "arch/$ARCH/defconfig"
>
> +# expanded to y if the command exits with 0, n otherwise
> +macro success $(shell ($(1) && echo y) || echo n)
> +
> +# expanded to y if the given compiler flag is supported, n otherwise
> +macro cc-option $(success $CC -Werror $(1) -c -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null)
> +
>  config CONSTRUCTORS
>         bool
>         depends on !UML
> --
> 2.7.4
>

Reviewed-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>

Some other tests (e.g. scripts/*-stack-protector.sh) also pass -S and
-O0 and stuff to speed things up. Feels like that could lead to
gotchas though.

-S does help a bit at least:

    $ time gcc -c -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null
    real 0m0.020s
    user 0m0.013s
    sys 0m0.007s

    $ time gcc -S -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null
    real 0m0.012s
    user 0m0.009s
    sys 0m0.003s