Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] kbuild: Disable CONFIG_LD_ORPHAN_WARN for ld.lld 10.0.1

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 12:57 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ld.lld 10.0.1 spews a bunch of various warnings about .rela sections,
> along with a few others. Newer versions of ld.lld do not have these
> warnings. As a result, do not add '--orphan-handling=warn' to
> LDFLAGS_vmlinux if ld.lld's version is not new enough.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1187
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1193
> Reported-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: kernelci.org bot <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the additions in v2.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> * Add condition as a depends on line (Kees Cook)
>
> * Capture output of "$* --version" to avoid invoking linker twice (Nick
>   Desaulniers)
>
> * Improve documentation of script in comments (Nick Desaulniers)
>
> * Pick up review tag from Kees
>
>  MAINTAINERS            |  1 +
>  init/Kconfig           |  5 +++++
>  scripts/lld-version.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 scripts/lld-version.sh
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index e451dcce054f..e6f74f130ae1 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -4284,6 +4284,7 @@ B:        https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues
>  C:     irc://chat.freenode.net/clangbuiltlinux
>  F:     Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst
>  F:     scripts/clang-tools/
> +F:     scripts/lld-version.sh
>  K:     \b(?i:clang|llvm)\b
>
>  CLEANCACHE API
> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index 92c58b45abb8..b9037d6c5ab3 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ config CLANG_VERSION
>         int
>         default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))
>
> +config LLD_VERSION
> +       int
> +       default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/lld-version.sh $(LD))
> +
>  config CC_CAN_LINK
>         bool
>         default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
> @@ -1351,6 +1355,7 @@ config LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
>  config LD_ORPHAN_WARN
>         def_bool y
>         depends on ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
> +       depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 110000
>         depends on $(ld-option,--orphan-handling=warn)
>
>  config SYSCTL
> diff --git a/scripts/lld-version.sh b/scripts/lld-version.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..d70edb4d8a4f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/lld-version.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +#
> +# Usage: $ ./scripts/lld-version.sh ld.lld
> +#
> +# Print the linker version of `ld.lld' in a 5 or 6-digit form
> +# such as `100001' for ld.lld 10.0.1 etc.
> +
> +linker_string="$($* --version)"
> +
> +if ! ( echo $linker_string | grep -q LLD ); then
> +       echo 0
> +       exit 1
> +fi
> +
> +VERSION=$(echo $linker_string | cut -d ' ' -f 2)
> +MAJOR=$(echo $VERSION | cut -d . -f 1)
> +MINOR=$(echo $VERSION | cut -d . -f 2)
> +PATCHLEVEL=$(echo $VERSION | cut -d . -f 3)
> +printf "%d%02d%02d\\n" $MAJOR $MINOR $PATCHLEVEL
> --
> 2.29.2
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers