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Message-ID: <20230131002541.t32dgtfoovlmf23t@treble>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:25:41 -0800
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] objtool build improvements
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:34:28AM -0800, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:06:03AM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > Install libsubcmd and then get headers from there, this avoids
> > inadvertent dependencies on things in tools/lib. Fix V=1
> > support. Clean up how HOSTCC is used to override CC to avoid CFLAGS
> > being set for say gcc, and then CC being overridden to clang.
> >
> > v4. Rebase and look to address review comments from Josh Poimboeuf
> > <jpoimboe@...nel.org>. Removes the reviewed-by/tested-by given
> > the scope of changes.
> > v3. Is a rebase that removes the merged "tools lib subcmd: Add install
> > target" patch. In:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKwvOd=kgXmpfbVa1wiEvwL0tX3gu+dDTGi-HEiRXSojwCLRrg@mail.gmail.com/
> > Nick rightly points out that:
> > WARNINGS := $(EXTRA_WARNINGS) -Wno-switch-default -Wno-switch-enum -Wno-packed -Wno-nested-externs
> > became:
> > WARNINGS := -Wno-switch-default -Wno-switch-enum -Wno-packed -Wno-nested-externs
> > losing the EXTRA_WARNINGS which v3 now adds back in. Previous
> > testing had added the warnings to the end rather than the
> > beginning, thereby causing unexpected build issues that aren't present in v3.
> > v2. Include required "tools lib subcmd: Add install target" that is
> > already in Arnaldo's tree:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221109184914.1357295-3-irogers@google.com/
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git/commit/?h=perf/core&id=630ae80ea1dd253609cb50cff87f3248f901aca3
> > When building libsubcmd.a from objtool's Makefile, clear the
> > subdir to avoid it being appended onto OUTPUT and breaking the
> > build.
> >
> > Ian Rogers (3):
> > objtool: Install libsubcmd in build
> > objtool: Properly support make V=1
> > objtool: Alter how HOSTCC is forced
>
> Thanks, this looks pretty good. I might tweak the patch subjects to
> describe what's being fixed from a user's perspective.
>
> I'll wait a few days for any more reviews before merging.
>
> Independently from this patch set, I discovered that HOSTCFLAGS (and
> KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS which includes -O2 and some other flags) don't work
> when building objtool directly from tools/objtool. But they do work
> (for me at least) when building from the top-level Makefile. So I'm not
> sure what Nick's issue is.
The objtool build is failing intermittently with a clean output tree:
HOSTCC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/fixdep.o
HOSTLD /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/fixdep-in.o
LINK /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/fixdep
INSTALL /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/include/subcmd/exec-cmd.h
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/exec-cmd.o
MKDIR /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/help.o
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.o
HOSTLD arch/x86/tools/relocs
In file included from arch/x86/special.c:5:
/home/jpoimboe/git/linux/tools/objtool/include/objtool/builtin.h:8:10: fatal error: subcmd/parse-options.h: No such file or directory
8 | #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[5]: *** [/home/jpoimboe/git/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:97: /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/special.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [/home/jpoimboe/git/linux/tools/build/Makefile.build:139: arch/x86] Error 2
make[3]: *** [Makefile:66: /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
INSTALL /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/include/subcmd/help.h
INSTALL /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/include/subcmd/pager.h
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/pager.o
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/parse-options.o
INSTALL /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/include/subcmd/parse-options.h
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/run-command.o
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/sigchain.o
CC /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/subcmd-config.o
INSTALL /home/jpoimboe/tmp/a/tools/objtool/libsubcmd/include/subcmd/run-command.h
The libsubcmd header files need to be installed before any of the
objtool files gets compiled, so objtool-in.o needs a dependency on
$(LIBSUBCMD). I'll fold in the following fix:
diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile
index bbf8ec440430..1e90dad0b23b 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export BUILD_ORC
export srctree OUTPUT CFLAGS SRCARCH AWK
include $(srctree)/tools/build/Makefile.include
-$(OBJTOOL_IN): fixdep FORCE
+$(OBJTOOL_IN): fixdep $(LIBSUBCMD) FORCE
$(Q)$(CONFIG_SHELL) ./sync-check.sh
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=objtool $(HOST_OVERRIDES) CFLAGS="$(OBJTOOL_CFLAGS)" \
LDFLAGS="$(OBJTOOL_LDFLAGS)"
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