Re: [PATCH] ARM: disable ARMv6 for Clang older than 8.0

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 04:48:20PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-10-01 at 00:22 +0200, Stefan Agner wrote:
> > The kernel passes the ArmV6K architecture to the compiler when
> > using the multi platform selection and enabling ARMv6. Clang
> > older than version 8.0 emit assembly with an non-existing CPU,
> > which then makes the assembler fail. Prevent the user from
> > selecting ARMv6 when using Clang before 8.0.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/55
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > index e8cd55a5b04c..8da160757381 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> > @@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ config ARCH_MULTI_V4_V5
> >  
> >  config ARCH_MULTI_V6
> >  	bool "ARMv6 based platforms (ARM11)"
> > +	depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || CLANG_VERSION>=80000
> >  	select ARCH_MULTI_V6_V7
> >  	select CPU_V6K
> >  
> 
> Perhaps it'd be better to avoid this in selection
> criteria in Kconfig and instead add this to
> include/linux/compiler_clang.h
> ---
>  include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
> index b1ce500fe8b3..90fd16c85359 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
>  #error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-clang.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
>  #endif
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_MULTI_V6) && CLANG_VERSION < 80000
> +# error Sorry, your compiler is too old - please upgrade it.
> +#endif

(a) does it makes sense to have arch CONFIG_* in linux/*.h?  It could
    instead go in arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.c, where we have the other
    tests similar to this for GCC.

(b) do we get far enough that the #error will be generated before the
    reported assembler error happens?  IOW, would the assembler error
    mask this #error?

I think it needs confirmation that a #error for this problem results
in the desired behaviour.

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