Message-ID: <1024e788-f5f0-9990-a049-94133d3a0921@ozlabs.ru>
Date:   Wed, 12 May 2021 13:52:10 +1000
From:   Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kernel v2] powerpc/makefile: Do not redefine $(CPP) for
 preprocessor



On 5/12/21 05:18, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On 5/10/2021 9:48 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> The $(CPP) (do only preprocessing) macro is already defined in Makefile.
>> However POWERPC redefines it and adds $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) which results
>> in flags duplication. Which is not a big deal by itself except for
>> the flags which depend on other flags and the compiler checks them
>> as it parses the command line.
>>
>> Specifically, scripts/Makefile.build:304 generates ksyms for .S files.
>> If clang+llvm+sanitizer are enabled, this results in
>>
>> -emit-llvm-bc -fno-lto -flto -fvisibility=hidden \
>>   -fsanitize=cfi-mfcall -fno-lto  ...
>>
>> in the clang command line and triggers error:
>>
>> clang-13: error: invalid argument '-fsanitize=cfi-mfcall' only allowed 
>> with '-flto'
>>
>> This removes unnecessary CPP redefinition. Which works fine as in most
>> place KBUILD_CFLAGS is passed to $CPP except
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso(32|64).lds (and probably some others,
>> not yet detected). To fix vdso, we do:
>> 1. explicitly add -m(big|little)-endian to $CPP
>> 2. (for clang) add $CLANG_FLAGS to $KBUILD_CPPFLAGS as otherwise clang
>> silently ignores -m(big|little)-endian if the building platform does not
>> support big endian (such as x86) so --prefix= is required.
>>
>> While at this, remove some duplication from CPPFLAGS_vdso(32|64)
>> as cmd_cpp_lds_S has them anyway. It still puzzles me why we need -C
>> (preserve comments in the preprocessor output) flag here.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>
>> ---
>> Changes:
>> v2:
>> * fix KBUILD_CPPFLAGS
>> * add CLANG_FLAGS to CPPFLAGS
>> ---
>>   Makefile                            | 1 +
>>   arch/powerpc/Makefile               | 3 ++-
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile | 2 +-
>>   arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile | 2 +-
>>   4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
>> index 72af8e423f11..13acd2183d55 100644
>> --- a/Makefile
>> +++ b/Makefile
>> @@ -591,6 +591,7 @@ CLANG_FLAGS    += 
>> --prefix=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE))
>>   endif
>>   CLANG_FLAGS    += -Werror=unknown-warning-option
>>   KBUILD_CFLAGS    += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
>> +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS    += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
> 
> This is going to cause flag duplication, which would be nice to avoid. I 
> do not know if we can get away with just adding $(CLANG_FLAGS) to 
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS instead of KBUILD_CFLAGS though. It seems like this 
> assignment might be better in arch/powerpc/Makefile with the 
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS additions there.


It is a fair point about the duplication (which is woooow, I often see 
-mbig-endian 3 - three - times) and I think I only need --prefix= there 
but this is still exactly the place to do such thing as it potentially 
affects all archs supporting both endianness (not many though, yeah). 
Thanks,




> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
>>   KBUILD_AFLAGS    += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
>>   export CLANG_FLAGS
>>   endif
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
>> index 3212d076ac6a..306bfd2797ad 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
>> @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ endif
>>   ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
>>   KBUILD_CFLAGS    += -mlittle-endian
>> +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS    += -mlittle-endian
>>   KBUILD_LDFLAGS    += -EL
>>   LDEMULATION    := lppc
>>   GNUTARGET    := powerpcle
>> @@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ MULTIPLEWORD    := -mno-multiple
>>   KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-save-toc-indirect)
>>   else
>>   KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
>> +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
>>   KBUILD_LDFLAGS    += -EB
>>   LDEMULATION    := ppc
>>   GNUTARGET    := powerpc
>> @@ -208,7 +210,6 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS    += -I $(srctree)/arch/$(ARCH) 
>> $(asinstr)
>>   KBUILD_AFLAGS    += $(AFLAGS-y)
>>   KBUILD_CFLAGS    += $(call cc-option,-msoft-float)
>>   KBUILD_CFLAGS    += -pipe $(CFLAGS-y)
>> -CPP        = $(CC) -E $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
>>   CHECKFLAGS    += -m$(BITS) -D__powerpc__ -D__powerpc$(BITS)__
>>   ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile 
>> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
>> index 7d9a6fee0e3d..ea001c6df1fa 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
>> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ asflags-y := -D__VDSO32__ -s
>>   obj-y += vdso32_wrapper.o
>>   targets += vdso32.lds
>> -CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds += -P -C -Upowerpc
>> +CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds += -C
>>   # link rule for the .so file, .lds has to be first
>>   $(obj)/vdso32.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso32.lds $(obj-vdso32) 
>> $(obj)/vgettimeofday.o FORCE
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile 
>> b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile
>> index 2813e3f98db6..07eadba48c7a 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile
>> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ ccflags-y := -shared -fno-common -fno-builtin 
>> -nostdlib \
>>   asflags-y := -D__VDSO64__ -s
>>   targets += vdso64.lds
>> -CPPFLAGS_vdso64.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)
>> +CPPFLAGS_vdso64.lds += -C
>>   # link rule for the .so file, .lds has to be first
>>   $(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso64.lds $(obj-vdso64) 
>> $(obj)/vgettimeofday.o FORCE
>>
> 

-- 
Alexey

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