linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] x86/build: fix compiler support check for CONFIG

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Date:   Wed,  5 Dec 2018 15:27:19 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org
Cc:     Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@...cle.com>,
        Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] x86/build: fix compiler support check for CONFIG_RETPOLINE

It is troublesome to add a diagnostic like this to the Makefile
parse stage because the top-level Makefile could be parsed with
a stale include/config/auto.conf.

Once you are hit by the error about non-retpoline compiler, the
compilation still breaks even after disabling CONFIG_RETPOLINE.

The easiest fix is to move this check to the "archprepare" like commit
829fe4aa9ac1 ("x86: Allow generating user-space headers without a
compiler") did.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/12/4/206
Fixes: 4cd24de3a098 ("x86/retpoline: Make CONFIG_RETPOLINE depend on compiler support")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
---

Changes in v2:
  - Revive ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE surrounding the KBUILD_CFLAGS addition
  - Rephase the commit log a bit, hoping the cause of the issue will be clearer

 arch/x86/Makefile | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index f5d7f41..75ef499 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -220,9 +220,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
 
 # Avoid indirect branches in kernel to deal with Spectre
 ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
-ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
-  $(error You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler, please update your compiler.)
-endif
   KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS)
 endif
 
@@ -307,6 +304,13 @@ ifndef CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO
 	@echo Compiler lacks asm-goto support.
 	@exit 1
 endif
+ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
+ifeq ($(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS),)
+	@echo "You are building kernel with non-retpoline compiler." >&2
+	@echo "Please update your compiler." >&2
+	@false
+endif
+endif
 
 archclean:
 	$(Q)rm -rf $(objtree)/arch/i386
-- 
2.7.4