linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: vdso32: Introduce COMPAT_CC_IS

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Message-ID: <0c5816ba-4393-07f7-23ec-38ebde0e447f@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:02:38 +0100
From:   Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:     ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org, ndesaulniers@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, will@...nel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: vdso32: Introduce COMPAT_CC_IS_GCC


On 9/26/19 11:56 AM, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> On 9/26/19 9:06 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:03:50AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>> index 37c610963eee..afe8c948b493 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>>> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ config ARM64
>>>  	select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
>>>  	select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
>>>  	select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
>>> -	select GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO if (!CPU_BIG_ENDIAN && COMPAT)
>>> +	select GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO if (!CPU_BIG_ENDIAN && COMPAT && COMPAT_CC_IS_GCC)
>>>  	select HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
>>>  	select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
>>>  	select HAVE_PCI
>>> @@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
>>>  	default 0xeffffff900000000 if ARM64_VA_BITS_36 && KASAN_SW_TAGS
>>>  	default 0xffffffffffffffff
>>>  
>>> +config COMPAT_CC_IS_GCC
>>> +	def_bool $(success,$(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc --version | head -n 1 | grep -q arm)
>>
>> Nitpick: I prefer COMPATCC instead of COMPAT_CC for consistency with
>> HOSTCC.
>>
> 
> Ok, will change this in v2.
> 
>> Now, could we not generate a COMPATCC in the Makefile and use
>> $(COMPATCC) here instead of $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc? It really
>> doesn't make sense to check that gcc is gcc.
>>
> 
> All right, COMPATCC is already in the makefile, I will use it in here.
> 
>> A next step would be to check that COMPATCC can actually generate 32-bit
>> objects. But it's not essential at this stage.
>>
> 
> We are already checking this making sure that arm is present in the triple (grep
> -q arm).
> 
>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
>>> index 84a3d502c5a5..34f53eb11878 100644
>>> --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
>>> @@ -54,19 +54,8 @@ $(warning Detected assembler with broken .inst; disassembly will be unreliable)
>>>  endif
>>>  
>>>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO), y)
>>> -  CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO:"%"=%)
>>> -
>>> -  ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG), y)
>>> -    $(warning CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT is clang, the compat vDSO will not be built)
>>> -  else ifeq ($(strip $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)),)
>>> -    $(warning CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT not defined or empty, the compat vDSO will not be built)
>>> -  else ifeq ($(shell which $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc 2> /dev/null),)
>>> -    $(error $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc not found, check CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)
>>> -  else
>>> -    export CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT
>>> -    export CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO := y
>>> -    compat_vdso := -DCONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO=1
>>> -  endif
>>> +  export CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO := y
>>> +  compat_vdso := -DCONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO=1
>>>  endif
>>
>> Has CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO actually been removed from
>> lib/vdso/Kconfig? (I haven't checked the subsequent patches).
>>
> 

Missed this, I have the patch ready for that. When this series will be merged,
no more architectures will use the macro hence I will send a separate patch to
remove it from the common code.

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo