Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace & GCC <= 4.7

[Paul Burton]

Hi Masahiro,

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:00:49AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 8:16 AM Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When building using GCC 4.7 or older, -ffunction-sections & the -pg flag
> > used by ftrace are incompatible. This causes warnings or build failures
> > (where -Werror applies) such as the following:
> >
> >   arch/mips/generic/init.c:
> >     error: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible
> >
> > This used to be taken into account by the ordering of calls to cc-option
> > from within the top-level Makefile, which was introduced by commit
> > 90ad4052e85c ("kbuild: avoid conflict between -ffunction-sections and
> > -pg on gcc-4.7"). Unfortunately this was broken when the
> > CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION cc-option check was moved to
> > Kconfig in commit e85d1d65cd8a ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination
> > support in Kconfig"), because the flags used by this check no longer
> > include -pg.
> >
> > Fix this by not allowing CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be
> > enabled at the same time as ftrace/CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER when building
> > using GCC 4.7 or older.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: e85d1d65cd8a ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig")
> > Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.19+
> > ---
> >  init/Kconfig | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> > index d47cb77a220e..c787f782148d 100644
> > --- a/init/Kconfig
> > +++ b/init/Kconfig
> > @@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
> >         bool "Dead code and data elimination (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >         depends on HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
> >         depends on EXPERT
> > +       depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER || !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION >= 40800
> >         depends on $(cc-option,-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections)
> >         depends on $(ld-option,--gc-sections)
> >         help
> 
> Thanks for the fix.
> 
> I prefer this explicit 'depends on'.
> 
> Relying on the order of $(call cc-option, ...) in Makefile is fragile.
> 
> We raise the compiler minimum version from time to time.
> So, this 'depends on' will eventually go away in the future.
> 
> BTW, which one do you think more readable?
> 
> depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER || !CC_IS_GCC || GCC_VERSION >= 40800
> 
>     OR
> 
> depends on !(FUNCTION_TRACER && CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 40800)

Thanks - yes I agree it's nice that this is more explicit than the
ordering we previously relied upon.

I personally don't mind either of the 2 options above - let me know if
you'd like me to submit a v2 using your second option.

Thanks,
    Paul