[tip:core/objtool] objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE

From: tip-bot for Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 12:00:54 EST


Commit-ID: c1d45c3abd49b5bf9447e435099c1b000dcde752
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/c1d45c3abd49b5bf9447e435099c1b000dcde752
Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:39:37 -0600
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 16:13:00 +0100

objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE

When building with CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION on a ppc64le host with an x86
cross-compiler, Stephen Rothwell saw the following objtool build errors:

DESCEND objtool
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/special.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/elf.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool.o
MKDIR /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/libstring.o
elf.c:22:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/help.o
builtin-check.c:28:20: fatal error: string.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
objtool.c:28:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

It fails to build because it tries to compile objtool with the
cross-compiler instead of the host compiler.

Ensure that it always uses the host compiler by ignoring CROSS_COMPILE.

In order to do that properly, the libsubcmd.a library needs to be built
in tools/objtool/ rather than tools/lib/subcmd/. The latter directory
contains the cross-compiled version which is needed for perf and
possibly other tools.

Note that cross-compiling for x86 on a _big_ endian system would result
in a bunch of false positive objtool warnings during the kernel build
because it isn't endian-aware. But that's generally a rare edge case
and there haven't been any reports of anybody needing that.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55b63eefc347f1bb28573f972d8d1adbf1f1c31d.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile | 6 ++++--
tools/objtool/Makefile | 17 ++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile b/tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile
index 629cf8c..1faecb8 100644
--- a/tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile
+++ b/tools/lib/subcmd/Makefile
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))
#$(info Determined 'srctree' to be $(srctree))
endif

-CC = $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
-AR = $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
+CC ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc
+LD ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)ld
+AR ?= $(CROSS_COMPILE)ar
+
RM = rm -f

MAKEFLAGS += --no-print-directory
diff --git a/tools/objtool/Makefile b/tools/objtool/Makefile
index c4f0713..e4a6bd5 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/Makefile
+++ b/tools/objtool/Makefile
@@ -7,13 +7,19 @@ ARCH := x86
endif
endif

+# always use the host compiler
+CC = gcc
+LD = ld
+AR = ar
+
ifeq ($(srctree),)
srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(shell pwd)))
srctree := $(patsubst %/,%,$(dir $(srctree)))
endif

-SUBCMD_SRCDIR = $(srctree)/tools/lib/subcmd/
-LIBSUBCMD = $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),$(SUBCMD_SRCDIR))libsubcmd.a
+SUBCMD_SRCDIR = $(srctree)/tools/lib/subcmd/
+LIBSUBCMD_OUTPUT = $(if $(OUTPUT),$(OUTPUT),$(PWD)/)
+LIBSUBCMD = $(LIBSUBCMD_OUTPUT)libsubcmd.a

OBJTOOL := $(OUTPUT)objtool
OBJTOOL_IN := $(OBJTOOL)-in.o
@@ -45,12 +51,9 @@ $(OBJTOOL): $(LIBSUBCMD) $(OBJTOOL_IN)


$(LIBSUBCMD): fixdep FORCE
- $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(SUBCMD_SRCDIR)
-
-$(LIBSUBCMD)-clean:
- $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(SUBCMD_SRCDIR) clean > /dev/null
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) -C $(SUBCMD_SRCDIR) OUTPUT=$(LIBSUBCMD_OUTPUT)

-clean: $(LIBSUBCMD)-clean
+clean:
$(call QUIET_CLEAN, objtool) $(RM) $(OBJTOOL)
$(Q)find $(OUTPUT) -name '*.o' -delete -o -name '\.*.cmd' -delete -o -name '\.*.d' -delete
$(Q)$(RM) $(OUTPUT)arch/x86/insn/inat-tables.c $(OUTPUT)fixdep