linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] kbuild: Add -Werror=ignored-optimization-argument to CLANG

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Date:   Thu, 16 Sep 2021 11:40:17 -0700
From:   Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        llvm@...ts.linux.dev, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] kbuild: Add -Werror=ignored-optimization-argument to CLANG_FLAGS

Similar to commit 589834b3a009 ("kbuild: Add
-Werror=unknown-warning-option to CLANG_FLAGS").

Clang ignores certain GCC flags that it has not implemented, only
emitting a warning:

$ echo | clang -fsyntax-only -falign-jumps -x c -
clang-14: warning: optimization flag '-falign-jumps' is not supported
[-Wignored-optimization-argument]

When one of these flags gets added to KBUILD_CFLAGS unconditionally, all
subsequent cc-{disable-warning,option} calls fail because -Werror was
added to these invocations to turn the above warning and the equivalent
-W flag warning into errors.

To catch the presence of these flags earlier, turn
-Wignored-optimization-argument into an error so that the flags can
either be implemented or ignored via cc-option and there are no more
weird errors.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
---
 scripts/Makefile.clang | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.clang b/scripts/Makefile.clang
index 4cce8fd0779c..51fc23e2e9e5 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.clang
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.clang
@@ -29,7 +29,12 @@ CLANG_FLAGS	+= --prefix=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN_DIR)$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE))
 else
 CLANG_FLAGS	+= -fintegrated-as
 endif
+# By default, clang only warns when it encounters an unknown warning flag or
+# certain optimization flags it knows it has not implemented.
+# Make it behave more like gcc by erroring when these flags are encountered
+# so they can be implemented or wrapped in cc-option.
 CLANG_FLAGS	+= -Werror=unknown-warning-option
+CLANG_FLAGS	+= -Werror=ignored-optimization-argument
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= $(CLANG_FLAGS)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS	+= $(CLANG_FLAGS)
 export CLANG_FLAGS
-- 
2.33.0