Re: [PATCH] torture: Pass --kmake-arg to all make invocations

[Marco Elver]

On Tue, Jun 16 2020 at 10:42AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 06:42:02PM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 16 2020 at 09:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:49:24AM +0200, Marco Elver wrote:
> > > > We need to pass the arguments provided to --kmake-arg to all make
> > > > invocations. In particular, the make invocations generating the configs
> > > > need to see the final make arguments, e.g. if config variables depend on
> > > > particular variables that are passed to make.
> > > > 
> > > > For example, when using '--kcsan --kmake-arg CC=clang-11', we would lose
> > > > CONFIG_KCSAN=y due to 'make oldconfig' not seeing that we want to use a
> > > > compiler that supports KCSAN.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Queued and pushed, thank you!
> > > 
> > > Would the following patch make sense, at least until such time
> > > as some other compiler supports KCSAN?
> > > 
> > > 							Thanx, Paul
> > > 
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > commit 88bcaa730b6d40ddf69b09ed6f0a14803d087d99
> > > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Tue Jun 16 09:02:34 2020 -0700
> > > 
> > >     torture: Make --kcsan default to using Clang 11
> > >     
> > >     Currently, Clang 11 is the only compiler that can support KCSAN.
> > >     Therefore, as a convenience to the KCSAN user, this commit causes
> > >     --kcsan to specify Clang 11 unless a "CC=" argument was already
> > >     specified via the --kmake-arg argument.
> > 
> > As soon as more compilers support KCSAN (e.g. clang-12, etc...) we run
> > the risk of actually inconveniencing ourselves more because then we
> > really need to say '--kmake-arg CC=clang-1X' to not use the old
> > compiler. Or revert this in time.
> > 
> > My command-line looks more like this right now:
> > 
> > 	kvm.sh ... --kmake-arg "CC="${HOME}/local/<gcc-or-clang>-11.kcsan/local/bin/<gcc-or-clang>" ...
> > 
> > I think the safer alternative would be to error if CONFIG_KCSAN=y is not
> > in the config, and simply suggest "Did you forget to switch your
> > compiler with '--kmake-arg CC=<cc-that-supports-kcsan>'?" (of course, a
> > 'gcc' in $PATH that supports KCSAN would also be fine -- see below).
> > Eventually, when the default compilers support KCSAN, this will resolve
> > itself gracefully.
> > 
> > Also, I'm going to send a series later this week to re-enable GCC
> > support. ;-)
> 
> OK, sounds like I should leave well enough alone, then.  ;-)
> 
> In its current state, specifying "--kcsan" without a KCSAN-capable
> compiler does get you this:
> 
> :CONFIG_KCSAN=y: improperly set
> :CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS=100000: improperly set
> :CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE=y: improperly set
> :CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER=y: improperly set
> Clean KCSAN run in /home/git/linux-rcu/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2020.06.16-09.53.16
> 
> Which admittedly is a bit obtuse, especially that last line.  So how
> about the following patch, which instead results in this?
> 
> :CONFIG_KCSAN=y: improperly set
> :CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS=100000: improperly set
> :CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE=y: improperly set

Noticed that CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE=y warning still appears, because it
wants CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.

> :CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER=y: improperly set
> Did you forget to switch your compiler with --kmake-arg CC=<cc-that-supports-kcsan>?

Sounds good, with another suggestion below, but otherwise

Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-- Marco

> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> commit f571795b1146007407851675a258b6685ea2d589
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Jun 16 10:38:57 2020 -0700
> 
>     torture: Improve diagnostic for KCSAN-incapable compilers
>     
>     Using --kcsan when the compiler does not support KCSAN results in this:
>     
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN=y: improperly set
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS=100000: improperly set
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE=y: improperly set
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER=y: improperly set
>     Clean KCSAN run in /home/git/linux-rcu/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2020.06.16-09.53.16
>     
>     This is a bit obtuse, so this commit adds checks resulting in this:
>     
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN=y: improperly set
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN_REPORT_ONCE_IN_MS=100000: improperly set
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN_VERBOSE=y: improperly set
>     :CONFIG_KCSAN_INTERRUPT_WATCHER=y: improperly set
>     Did you forget to switch your compiler with --kmake-arg CC=<cc-that-supports-kcsan>?
>     
>     Suggested-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-recheck.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-recheck.sh
> index 357899c..837643a 100755
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-recheck.sh
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm-recheck.sh
> @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ do
>  			then
>  				echo QEMU killed
>  			fi
> -			configcheck.sh $i/.config $i/ConfigFragment
> +			configcheck.sh $i/.config $i/ConfigFragment > $T 2>&1
> +			cat $T
>  			if test -r $i/Make.oldconfig.err
>  			then
>  				cat $i/Make.oldconfig.err
> @@ -73,7 +74,10 @@ do
>  	done
>  	if test -f "$rd/kcsan.sum"
>  	then
> -		if test -s "$rd/kcsan.sum"
> +		if grep -q CONFIG_KCSAN=y $T
> +		then

For completeness, could add this above:

	echo "Compiler or architecture does not support KCSAN!"

Because we might also be on an unsupported architecture.

> +			echo Did you forget to switch your compiler with '--kmake-arg CC=<cc-that-supports-kcsan>'?
> +		elif test -s "$rd/kcsan.sum"
>  		then
>  			echo KCSAN summary in $rd/kcsan.sum
>  		else