linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] uml: make CONFIG_STATIC_LINK actually static

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Date:   Sat, 8 Feb 2020 07:56:58 +0000
From:   Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com>
To:     Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        James McMechan <james_mcmechan@...mail.com>
Cc:     linux-um <linux-um@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] uml: make CONFIG_STATIC_LINK actually static

On 08/02/2020 01:07, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 2:14 PM Brendan Higgins
> <brendanhiggins@...gle.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently, CONFIG_STATIC_LINK can be enabled with options which cannot
>> be statically linked, namely UML_NET_VECTOR, UML_NET_VDE, and
>> UML_NET_PCAP; this is because glibc tries to load NSS which does not
>> support being statically linked. So make CONFIG_STATIC_LINK depend on
>> !UML_NET_VECTOR && !UML_NET_VDE && !UML_NET_PCAP.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f658f317-be54-ed75-8296-c373c2dcc697@cambridgegreys.com/#t
>> Signed-off-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>
>> ---
> 
> Ping.

ICMP echo reply,

I thought I acked it :)

If not - apologies.

A.

> 
>>   arch/um/Kconfig         | 8 +++++++-
>>   arch/um/drivers/Kconfig | 3 +++
>>   2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig b/arch/um/Kconfig
>> index 0917f8443c285..28d62151fb2ed 100644
>> --- a/arch/um/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig
>> @@ -62,9 +62,12 @@ config NR_CPUS
>>
>>   source "arch/$(HEADER_ARCH)/um/Kconfig"
>>
>> +config FORBID_STATIC_LINK
>> +       bool
>> +
>>   config STATIC_LINK
>>          bool "Force a static link"
>> -       default n
>> +       depends on !FORBID_STATIC_LINK
>>          help
>>            This option gives you the ability to force a static link of UML.
>>            Normally, UML is linked as a shared binary.  This is inconvenient for
>> @@ -73,6 +76,9 @@ config STATIC_LINK
>>            Additionally, this option enables using higher memory spaces (up to
>>            2.75G) for UML.
>>
>> +         NOTE: This option is incompatible with some networking features which
>> +         depend on features that require being dynamically loaded (like NSS).
>> +
>>   config LD_SCRIPT_STATIC
>>          bool
>>          default y
>> diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
>> index 72d4170557820..9160ead56e33c 100644
>> --- a/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/um/drivers/Kconfig
>> @@ -234,6 +234,7 @@ config UML_NET_DAEMON
>>   config UML_NET_VECTOR
>>          bool "Vector I/O high performance network devices"
>>          depends on UML_NET
>> +       select FORBID_STATIC_LINK
>>          help
>>          This User-Mode Linux network driver uses multi-message send
>>          and receive functions. The host running the UML guest must have
>> @@ -245,6 +246,7 @@ config UML_NET_VECTOR
>>   config UML_NET_VDE
>>          bool "VDE transport (obsolete)"
>>          depends on UML_NET
>> +       select FORBID_STATIC_LINK
>>          help
>>          This User-Mode Linux network transport allows one or more running
>>          UMLs on a single host to communicate with each other and also
>> @@ -292,6 +294,7 @@ config UML_NET_MCAST
>>   config UML_NET_PCAP
>>          bool "pcap transport (obsolete)"
>>          depends on UML_NET
>> +       select FORBID_STATIC_LINK
>>          help
>>          The pcap transport makes a pcap packet stream on the host look
>>          like an ethernet device inside UML.  This is useful for making
>> --
>> 2.25.0.341.g760bfbb309-goog
>>
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