Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: vdso32: Introduce COMPAT_CC_IS_GCC

[Vincenzo Frascino]

On 9/26/19 9:06 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 07:03:50AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> index 37c610963eee..afe8c948b493 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
>> @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ config ARM64
>>  	select GENERIC_STRNLEN_USER
>>  	select GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL
>>  	select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
>> -	select GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO if (!CPU_BIG_ENDIAN && COMPAT)
>> +	select GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO if (!CPU_BIG_ENDIAN && COMPAT && COMPAT_CC_IS_GCC)
>>  	select HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ
>>  	select HARDIRQS_SW_RESEND
>>  	select HAVE_PCI
>> @@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
>>  	default 0xeffffff900000000 if ARM64_VA_BITS_36 && KASAN_SW_TAGS
>>  	default 0xffffffffffffffff
>>  
>> +config COMPAT_CC_IS_GCC
>> +	def_bool $(success,$(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc --version | head -n 1 | grep -q arm)
> 
> Nitpick: I prefer COMPATCC instead of COMPAT_CC for consistency with
> HOSTCC.
>

Ok, will change this in v2.

> Now, could we not generate a COMPATCC in the Makefile and use
> $(COMPATCC) here instead of $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc? It really
> doesn't make sense to check that gcc is gcc.
> 

All right, COMPATCC is already in the makefile, I will use it in here.

> A next step would be to check that COMPATCC can actually generate 32-bit
> objects. But it's not essential at this stage.
> 

We are already checking this making sure that arm is present in the triple (grep
-q arm).

>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
>> index 84a3d502c5a5..34f53eb11878 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
>> @@ -54,19 +54,8 @@ $(warning Detected assembler with broken .inst; disassembly will be unreliable)
>>  endif
>>  
>>  ifeq ($(CONFIG_GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO), y)
>> -  CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT ?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO:"%"=%)
>> -
>> -  ifeq ($(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG), y)
>> -    $(warning CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT is clang, the compat vDSO will not be built)
>> -  else ifeq ($(strip $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)),)
>> -    $(warning CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT not defined or empty, the compat vDSO will not be built)
>> -  else ifeq ($(shell which $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc 2> /dev/null),)
>> -    $(error $(CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)gcc not found, check CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT)
>> -  else
>> -    export CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT
>> -    export CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO := y
>> -    compat_vdso := -DCONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO=1
>> -  endif
>> +  export CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO := y
>> +  compat_vdso := -DCONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO=1
>>  endif
> 
> Has CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO actually been removed from
> lib/vdso/Kconfig? (I haven't checked the subsequent patches).
> 

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Regards,
Vincenzo