linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO

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Date:   Sat, 2 May 2020 08:49:45 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
To:     "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Golovin <dima@...ovin.in>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link
 VDSO

On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 02:50:34PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> 
> > Before this patch, LD=ld.lld did nothing:
> > 
> > $ llvm-readelf -p.comment arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg | sed 's/(.*//'
> > String dump of section '.comment':
> > [     0] ClangBuiltLinux clang version 11.0.0
> 
>  What does it mean "did nothing", is `arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg.raw' not 
> produced?  Where does `arch/mips/vdso/vdso.so.dbg' come from then?
> 
>   Maciej

A better wording might be "Before this patch, specifying a linker like
ld.lld via the LD variable was not respected by the MIPS VDSO". I should
also probably expand on the second paragraph, maybe something like:

When clang is built in a default configuration, it first attempts to use
the target triple's default linker then the system's default linker,
which is almost always ld.bfd. To use ld.lld, '-fuse-ld=lld' must be
passed to clang. However, we do not use -fuse-ld=lld because it can be
brittle and we have support for invoking $(LD) directly because we have
separate compilation and link steps. See commit fe00e50b2db8c ("ARM:
8858/1: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO") and
commit 691efbedc60d2 ("arm64: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link
VDSO") for examples of doing this in the VDSO.