linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] Makefile: Fix checkstack.pl arm64 wrong or unknown architecture

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 13:45:06 -0400
From:   "George G. Davis" <george_davis@...tor.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
CC:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Makefile: Fix checkstack.pl arm64 wrong or unknown
 architecture

Hello Masahiro,

On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 02:22:36AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

// CUT

> As far as I understood, checkstack.pl is supposed to
> understand both ARCH= and 'uname -m'.
> 
> 
> For example, the following commit supports x86, x86_64, i386,
> by using regular expression.
> 
> commit fda9f9903be6c3b590472c175c514b0834bb3c83
> Author: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@...il.com>
> Date:   Fri Aug 8 14:23:35 2014 -0700
> 
>     scripts/checkstack.pl: automatically handle 32-bit and 64-bit mode
> for ARCH=x86
> 
>     This patch adds support for ARCH=x86 into checkstack.
> 
> 
> 
> Following this pattern, does this work for you?
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkstack.pl b/scripts/checkstack.pl
> index 122aef5e4e14..371bd17a4983 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkstack.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkstack.pl
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ my (@stack, $re, $dre, $x, $xs, $funcre);
>         $x      = "[0-9a-f]";   # hex character
>         $xs     = "[0-9a-f ]";  # hex character or space
>         $funcre = qr/^$x* <(.*)>:$/;
> -       if ($arch eq 'aarch64') {
> +       if ($arch =~ '^(aarch|arm)64$') {

Yes, that works, thanks!

Will you submit a fix or would you like me to resubmit with the above suggested
fix?


Thanks again!

>                 #ffffffc0006325cc:       a9bb7bfd        stp     x29,
> x30, [sp, #-80]!
>                 #a110:       d11643ff        sub     sp, sp, #0x590
>                 $re = qr/^.*stp.*sp, \#-([0-9]{1,8})\]\!/o;
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards
> Masahiro Yamada

-- 
Regards,
George