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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:06:58 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/purgatory: Make sure we fail the build if purgatory.ro has missing symbols On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 12:42:36AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote: > The real problem is that there exist CFLAGS that should be used for > all source files in the kernel, and there are CFLAGS (eg tracing, > stack check etc) that should only be used for the kernel proper. For > special compilations, such as boot stubs, vdso's, purgatory we should > have the generic CFLAGS but not the kernel-proper CFLAGS. The issue > currently is that these special compilations need to filter out all > the flags added for kernel-proper, and this is a moving target as > more tracing/sanity flags get added. Neither the solution of simply > re-initializing CFLAGS (which will miss generic CFLAGS) nor trying to > filter out CFLAGS (which will miss new kernel-proper CFLAGS) works > very well. I think ideally splitting these into independent variables, > i.e. BASE_FLAGS that can be used for everything, and KERNEL_FLAGS > only to be used for the kernel proper is likely eventually the better > solution, rather than conflating both into KBUILD_CFLAGS. Hohumm, this has come up a bunch of times in the past in conjunction with boot/{,compressed/} Makefiles too. I'd be open towards reworking this properly but I'm afraid it would cause a lot of churn and breakage and it is hard to say how ugly it would become before someone actually tries it. ;-\ -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
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