[PATCH v4.16-rc5 2/2] x86/vdso: VDSO should handle clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW) without syscall

From: jason . vas . dias
Date: Sat Mar 17 2018 - 10:30:13 EST


This patch allows compilation to succeed with compilers that support -DRETPOLINE -
it was kindly contributed by H.J. Liu in GCC Bugzilla: 84908 :
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84908

Apparently the GCC retpoline implementation has a limitation that it cannot
handle switch statements with more than 5 clauses, which vclock_gettime.c's
__vdso_clock_gettime function now contains.

The automated test builds should now succeed with this patch.


diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index 1943aeb..cb64e10 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ CFL := $(PROFILING) -mcmodel=small -fPIC -O2 -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -m64 \
-fno-omit-frame-pointer -foptimize-sibling-calls \
-DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING -DBUILD_VDSO

-$(vobjs): KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(filter-out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS),$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) $(CFL)
+$(vobjs): KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(filter-out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS)) $(CFL)

#
# vDSO code runs in userspace and -pg doesn't help with profiling anyway.
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 := $(filter-out -mcmodel=kernel,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_32))
KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 := $(filter-out -fno-pic,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_32))
KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 := $(filter-out -mfentry,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_32))
KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 := $(filter-out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS),$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_32))
+KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 := $(filter-out $(RETPOLINE_CFLAGS) -DRETPOLINE,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_32))
KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 += -m32 -msoft-float -mregparm=0 -fpic
KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
KBUILD_CFLAGS_32 += $(call cc-option, -foptimize-sibling-calls)