linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] elfcore: correct reference to CONFIG

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Date:   Thu, 7 Oct 2021 09:02:02 +0100
From:   Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elfcore: correct reference to CONFIG_UML

On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 1:22 AM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
> Commit 6e7b64b9dd6d ("elfcore: fix building with clang") introduces
> special handling for two architectures, ia64 and User Mode Linux.
> However, the wrong name, i.e., CONFIG_UM, for the intended Kconfig symbol
> for User-Mode Linux was used.
>
> Although the directory for User Mode Linux is ./arch/um; the Kconfig
> symbol for this architecture is called CONFIG_UML.
>
> Luckily, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py warns on non-existing configs:
>
> UM
> Referencing files: include/linux/elfcore.h
> Similar symbols: UML, NUMA
>
> Correct the name of the config to the intended one.
>
> Fixes: 6e7b64b9dd6d ("elfcore: fix building with clang")
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
> ---
> applies cleanly on next-20211005
>
> Arnd, please ack.
> Andrew, please pick this fix.
>
>  include/linux/elfcore.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/elfcore.h b/include/linux/elfcore.h
> index 2aaa15779d50..127716b58235 100644
> --- a/include/linux/elfcore.h
> +++ b/include/linux/elfcore.h
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static inline int elf_core_copy_task_fpregs(struct task_struct *t, struct pt_reg
>  #endif
>  }
>
> -#if defined(CONFIG_UM) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
> +#if defined(CONFIG_UML) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)

This fails to build with 'make ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86_64' since
arch/x86/um/elfcore.c is only compiled for x86_32. You'd need another
check on CONFIG_X86_32 (as per my patch ;)).

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin