Re: DTB build failure due to preproccessing

From: Grant Likely
Date: Fri May 31 2013 - 07:48:39 EST


On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:29:30 +0100, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This affects arch/powerpc/boot/dts/virtex440-ml510.dts but I think it is
> actually a more general issue:
>
> $ make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux- virtex440-ml510.dtb
> CC scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s
> GEN scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h
> HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o
> HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost
> DTC arch/powerpc/boot/virtex440-ml510.dtb
> Error: arch/powerpc/boot/dts/virtex440-ml510.dts:374.6-7 syntax error
> FATAL ERROR: Unable to parse input tree
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/boot/virtex440-ml510.dtb] Error 1
> make: *** [virtex440-ml510.dtb] Error 2
>
> Line 374 is the "IDSEL 0x16..." line here:
> interrupt-map = <
> /* IRQ mapping for pci slots and ALI M1533
> ...
> * management core also isn't used.
> */
>
> /* IDSEL 0x16 / dev=6, bus=0 / PCI slot 3 */
> 0x3000 0 0 1 &xps_intc_0 3 2
> 0x3000 0 0 2 &xps_intc_0 2 2
> 0x3000 0 0 3 &xps_intc_0 5 2
> 0x3000 0 0 4 &xps_intc_0 4 2
>
> Which gets preprocessed into:
> interrupt-map = <
> # 375 "arch/powerpc/boot/dts/virtex440-ml510.dts"
> 0x3000 0 0 1 &xps_intc_0 3 2
> 0x3000 0 0 2 &xps_intc_0 2 2
> 0x3000 0 0 3 &xps_intc_0 5 2
> 0x3000 0 0 4 &xps_intc_0 4 2
>
> If I manually remove the "# 375 " line then that fixes the error
> (although there is then a subsequent one of the same type).
>
> I suppose this is a bug in dtc? It appears to have at least some
> awareness of these preprocessor line number comments since it manages to
> report the original source line number.

dtc is only able to track line numbers when the native /include/
directive is used. The #include directive doesn't help it. It should be
added, but until it is the following patch solves the problem:

I've got this patch in my tree. Either Rob or I will push it to Linus in
the next few days.

g.

---
commit d01dccdcb3ea8233b09efb9c24db9f057fbd3b37
Author: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 31 12:45:18 2013 +0100

dtc: Suppress cpp linemarker annotations

DTC isn't able to parse cpp linemarker annotations, so suppress them in
the cpp output by adding the -P flag to the cpp options.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.lib b/scripts/Makefile.lib
index 51bb3de..fc08a2b 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.lib
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.lib
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ cpp_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile) $(NOSTDINC_FLAGS) $(LINUXINCLUDE) \

ld_flags = $(LDFLAGS) $(ldflags-y)

-dtc_cpp_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile).pre -nostdinc \
+dtc_cpp_flags = -Wp,-MD,$(depfile).pre -nostdinc -P \
-I$(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/boot/dts \
-I$(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/boot/dts/include \
-undef -D__DTS__
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