Re: [PATCH] riscv: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link vDSO

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:51:56 PDT (-0700), nathan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Currently, the VDSO is being linked through $(CC). This does not match
> how the rest of the kernel links objects, which is through the $(LD)
> variable.
>
> When linking with clang, there are a couple of warnings about flags that
> will not be used during the link:
>
> clang-12: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-no-pie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
> clang-12: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pg' [-Wunused-command-line-argument]
>
> '-no-pie' was added in commit 85602bea297f ("RISC-V: build vdso-dummy.o
> with -no-pie") to override '-pie' getting added to the ld command from
> distribution versions of GCC that enable PIE by default. It is
> technically no longer needed after commit c2c81bb2f691 ("RISC-V: Fix the
> VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+"), which removed vdso-dummy.o
> in favor of generating vdso-syms.S from vdso.so with $(NM) but this also
> resolves the issue in case it ever comes back due to having full control
> over the $(LD) command. '-pg' is for function tracing, it is not used
> during linking as clang states.
>
> These flags could be removed/filtered to fix the warnings but it is
> easier to just match the rest of the kernel and use $(LD) directly for
> linking. See commits
>
>   fe00e50b2db8 ("ARM: 8858/1: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
>   691efbedc60d ("arm64: vdso: use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
>   2ff906994b6c ("MIPS: VDSO: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link VDSO")
>   2b2a25845d53 ("s390/vdso: Use $(LD) instead of $(CC) to link vDSO")
>
> for more information.
>
> The flags are converted to linker flags and '--eh-frame-hdr' is added to
> match what is added by GCC implicitly, which can be seen by adding '-v'
> to GCC's invocation.
>
> Additionally, since this area is being modified, use the $(OBJCOPY)
> variable instead of an open coded $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy so that the
> user's choice of objcopy binary is respected.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/803
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/970
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 12 ++++--------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> index 71a315e73cbe..ca2b40dfd24b 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> @@ -41,11 +41,10 @@ KASAN_SANITIZE := n
>  $(obj)/vdso.o: $(obj)/vdso.so
>
>  # link rule for the .so file, .lds has to be first
> -SYSCFLAGS_vdso.so.dbg = $(c_flags)
>  $(obj)/vdso.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(obj-vdso) FORCE
>  	$(call if_changed,vdsold)
> -SYSCFLAGS_vdso.so.dbg = -shared -s -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
> -	-Wl,--build-id=sha1 -Wl,--hash-style=both
> +LDFLAGS_vdso.so.dbg = -shared -s -soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
> +	--build-id=sha1 --hash-style=both --eh-frame-hdr
>
>  # We also create a special relocatable object that should mirror the symbol
>  # table and layout of the linked DSO. With ld --just-symbols we can then
> @@ -60,13 +59,10 @@ $(obj)/%.so: $(obj)/%.so.dbg FORCE
>
>  # actual build commands
>  # The DSO images are built using a special linker script
> -# Add -lgcc so rv32 gets static muldi3 and lshrdi3 definitions.
>  # Make sure only to export the intended __vdso_xxx symbol offsets.
>  quiet_cmd_vdsold = VDSOLD  $@
> -      cmd_vdsold = $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(call cc-option, -no-pie) -nostdlib -nostartfiles $(SYSCFLAGS_$(@F)) \
> -                           -Wl,-T,$(filter-out FORCE,$^) -o $@.tmp && \
> -                   $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy \
> -                           $(patsubst %, -G __vdso_%, $(vdso-syms)) $@.tmp $@ && \
> +      cmd_vdsold = $(LD) $(ld_flags) -T $(filter-out FORCE,$^) -o $@.tmp && \
> +                   $(OBJCOPY) $(patsubst %, -G __vdso_%, $(vdso-syms)) $@.tmp $@ && \
>                     rm $@.tmp
>
>  # Extracts symbol offsets from the VDSO, converting them into an assembly file

Thanks, this is on for-next.