Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix location of '-plugin-opt=' flags

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:01 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Commit b33fff07e3e3 ("x86, build: allow LTO to be selected") added a
> couple of '-plugin-opt=' flags to KBUILD_LDFLAGS because the code model
> and stack alignment are not stored in LLVM bitcode. However, these flags
> were added to KBUILD_LDFLAGS prior to the emulation flag assignment,
> which uses ':=', so they were overwritten and never added to $(LD)
> invocations. The absence of these flags caused misalignment issues in
> the AMDGPU driver when compiling with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, resulting in
> general protection faults.
>
> Shuffle the assignment below the initial one so that the flags are
> properly passed along and all of the linker flags stay together.
>
> At the same time, avoid any future issues with clobbering flags by
> changing the emulation flag assignment to '+=' since KBUILD_LDFLAGS is
> already defined with ':=' in the main Makefile before being exported for
> modification here as a result of commit ce99d0bf312d ("kbuild: clear
> LDFLAGS in the top Makefile").

Thanks for the patch file.  I will need to be more wary of `:=`
operator in kbuild changes in the future.

Ideally, we should encode these two flags in LLVM's IR so that we
don't need to respecify them when restarting optimizations from the
linker during LTO. I've filed
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1377 to follow up on
that idea.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: b33fff07e3e3 ("x86, build: allow LTO to be selected")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1374
> Reported-by: Anthony Ruhier <aruhier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Anthony Ruhier <aruhier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Makefile | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
> index c77c5d8a7b3e..307529417021 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
> @@ -178,11 +178,6 @@ ifeq ($(ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS), 1)
>         KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-maccumulate-outgoing-args,)
>  endif
>
> -ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
> -KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -plugin-opt=-code-model=kernel \
> -                  -plugin-opt=-stack-alignment=$(if $(CONFIG_X86_32),4,8)
> -endif
> -
>  # Workaround for a gcc prelease that unfortunately was shipped in a suse release
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
>  #
> @@ -202,7 +197,12 @@ ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
>    endif
>  endif
>
> -KBUILD_LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
> +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE)
> +
> +ifdef CONFIG_LTO_CLANG
> +KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -plugin-opt=-code-model=kernel \
> +                  -plugin-opt=-stack-alignment=$(if $(CONFIG_X86_32),4,8)
> +endif
>
>  ifdef CONFIG_X86_NEED_RELOCS
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux := --emit-relocs --discard-none
>
> base-commit: d07f6ca923ea0927a1024dfccafc5b53b61cfecc
> --
> 2.32.0.rc0
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers