Re: [PATCH] MIPS: VDSO: Use CLANG_FLAGS instead of filtering out '--target='

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Mon Jan 18 2021 - 09:59:09 EST


On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:26:22PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Commit ee67855ecd9d ("MIPS: vdso: Allow clang's --target flag in VDSO
> cflags") allowed the '--target=' flag from the main Makefile to filter
> through to the vDSO. However, it did not bring any of the other clang
> specific flags for controlling the integrated assembler and the GNU
> tools locations (--prefix=, --gcc-toolchain=, and -no-integrated-as).
> Without these, we will get a warning (visible with tinyconfig):
>
> arch/mips/vdso/elf.S:14:1: warning: DWARF2 only supports one section per
> compilation unit
> .pushsection .note.Linux, "a",@note ; .balign 4 ; .long 2f - 1f ; .long
> 4484f - 3f ; .long 0 ; 1:.asciz "Linux" ; 2:.balign 4 ; 3:
> ^
> arch/mips/vdso/elf.S:34:2: warning: DWARF2 only supports one section per
> compilation unit
> .section .mips_abiflags, "a"
> ^
>
> All of these flags are bundled up under CLANG_FLAGS in the main Makefile
> and exported so that they can be added to Makefiles that set their own
> CFLAGS. Use this value instead of filtering out '--target=' so there is
> no warning and all of the tools are properly used.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: ee67855ecd9d ("MIPS: vdso: Allow clang's --target flag in VDSO cflags")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1256
> Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/vdso/Makefile | 5 +----
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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