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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmMekTUz81ZX8qcwNpcEdfC=ab0Tnutun5UPS8GjLnq2Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:11:06 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Vitor Massaru Iha <vitor@...saru.org>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: remove stale cc-option checks

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 1:06 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 6:43 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 5:42 AM Nick Desaulniers
> > <ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > > index 027fdf2a14fe..3e3fb4affba1 100644
> > > --- a/Makefile
> > > +++ b/Makefile
> > > @@ -798,7 +801,7 @@ include/config/auto.conf:
> > >  endif # may-sync-config
> > >  endif # need-config
> > >
> > > -KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks,)
> > > +KBUILD_CFLAGS  += -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
> > >  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-disable-warning,frame-address,)
> > >  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-truncation)
> > >  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-overflow)
> > > @@ -844,17 +847,17 @@ KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS += -Copt-level=z
> > >  endif
> > >
> > >  # Tell gcc to never replace conditional load with a non-conditional one
> > > -KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)
> > > +ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC
> >
> >
> > Can you insert a comment here?
> >
> > # GCC 10 renamed --param=allow-store-data-races=0 to --allow-store-data-races
> >
> >
> > It will remind us of dropping this conditional
> > in the (long long distant) future.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > +KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,--allow-store-data-races,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)
> > >  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call cc-option,-fno-allow-store-data-races)
> > > +endif
>
> So it looks like `-fallow-store-data-races` was also supported. Reading through
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97309
> https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Atomic/GCCMM/ExecutiveSummary
> it seems that the default is not to allow "store data races." So I
> should not be adding `--allow-store-data-races` or
> `-fallow-store-data-races`; so this just should be the existing test,
> with a comment that it can be removed once gcc-10+ is the minimum.
> Will update that in v2.

Ah, perhaps I should combine the following line:
KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(call
cc-option,-fallow-store-data-races,--param=allow-store-data-races=0)

Though I don't understand the csky failure. cc-option appends to a
running list of flags; if an unsupported flag gets added to CFLAGS, it
can cause cc-option to failure subsequent checks in spooky ways.  I
usually debug those by adding print statements to cc-option to see
what the full command it's testing; then invoke the compiler manually
with those to see what went wrong.  (bookmarked and referenced often:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16467718/how-to-print-out-a-variable-in-makefile)

Though my distro doesn't package csky-linux-gnu-gcc...
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers