Re: [PATCH/RFC] Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the luto-misc tree

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Jul 25 2016 - 08:56:30 EST


Em Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 03:08:45PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell escreveu:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:57:34 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I applied your patch and will push it to Ingo, now we must cross our
> > fingers so that Stephen doesn't come back to us once more telling it is
> > still broken :o)

> Unfortunately, this is what I get when I just build perf/core:

> DESCEND objtool
> CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o

Cool! objtool is fixed, we're not at a different tool using those
headers, and your patch fixes it, I see Andy acked it, I'll merge this
and push to Ingo,

Thanks,

- Arnaldo

> LD /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o
> Warning: objtool: x86 instruction decoder differs from kernel
> LINK /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool
> In file included from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h:10:0,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/asm-generic/int-ll64.h:11,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/asm-generic/types.h:6,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/types.h:4,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/tools/include/linux/types.h:9,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/linux/elf.h:4,
> from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c:66:
> /home/sfr/next/next/tools/include/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h:13:2: error: #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
> #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
> ^
>
> The be clear: this is a ppc64le hosted, x86_64 target cross build.
>
> I than added the following patch, and the build finishes successfully.
>
> From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:35:40 +1000
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: make the vdso2c compiler use the host architecture
> headers
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
> index 253b72eaade6..25e88c030c47 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
> $(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE
> $(call if_changed,vdso)
>
> -HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/include/uapi
> +HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi -I$(srctree)/arch/$(SUBARCH)/include/uapi
> hostprogs-y += vdso2c
>
> quiet_cmd_vdso2c = VDSO2C $@
> --
> 2.8.1
>
> There may be a more correct way to do this ...
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell