Re: [PATCH] ARM: do not assemble iwmmxt.S with LLVM toolchain

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 4:28 PM Jian Cai <caij2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> iwmmxt.S contains XScale instructions LLVM ARM backend does not support.
> Skip this file if LLVM integrated assemmbler or LLD is used to build ARM

Hi Jian, thank you for the patch.  It's pretty much spot on for what I
was looking for.  Some notes below:

s/assemmbler/assembler

:set spell

;)

Also, could use a link tag, ie.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/975

(Always include the link tag to help us track when and where patches land).

Finally, I think the hunks for the two different files should be
split; the init/Kconfig change should be it's own dedicated change
that goes to Masahiro, the maintainer of the Kbuild tree.  Then when
we have that, the dependent configs should go separately.  Would you
mind splitting this patch in two, and re-sending just the Kbuild patch
for now?  Since you used Sami's patch for inspiration
(https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/975#issuecomment-611694153,
https://github.com/samitolvanen/linux/commit/fe9786cb52a0100273c75117dcea8b8e07006fde),
it would be polite to Sami to add a tag like:

Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

or maybe better yet, take Sami's patch, add your signed off by tag
(maintaining him as the git author, see `git log --pretty=fuller`),
then rebase your AS_IS_CLANG hunk on top, make that a second patch,
then finally have the arm change as a third patch.

This change is exactly what I'm looking for, so these are just process concerns.

> kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <caij2003@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  init/Kconfig     | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 66a04f6f4775..39de8fc64a73 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ source "arch/arm/mm/Kconfig"
>
>  config IWMMXT
>         bool "Enable iWMMXt support"
> -       depends on CPU_XSCALE || CPU_XSC3 || CPU_MOHAWK || CPU_PJ4 || CPU_PJ4B
> +       depends on !AS_IS_CLANG && !LD_IS_LLD && (CPU_XSCALE || CPU_XSC3 || CPU_MOHAWK || CPU_PJ4 || CPU_PJ4B)
>         default y if PXA27x || PXA3xx || ARCH_MMP || CPU_PJ4 || CPU_PJ4B
>         help
>           Enable support for iWMMXt context switching at run time if
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 1c12059e0f7e..b0ab3271e900 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -19,6 +19,12 @@ config GCC_VERSION
>  config CC_IS_CLANG
>         def_bool $(success,$(CC) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
>
> +config AS_IS_CLANG
> +       def_bool $(success,$(AS) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q clang)
> +
> +config LD_IS_LLD
> +       def_bool $(success,$(LD) --version | head -n 1 | grep -q LLD)
> +
>  config CLANG_VERSION
>         int
>         default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
> --

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers