Re: [PATCH 2/2] Kbuild: lto: add make version checking

From: Lecopzer Chen
Date: Thu Jul 01 2021 - 04:55:17 EST



> On 6/30/2021 5:14 AM, Lecopzer Chen wrote:
> > LTO with MODVERSION will fail in generating correct CRC because
> > the makefile rule doesn't work for make with version 3.8X.[1]
> >
> > Thus we need to check make version during selecting on LTO Kconfig.
> > and the suitable version should be 4.2(40200) which release in 2016[2].
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210616080252.32046-1-lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/
> > Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/Kconfig | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> > index c45b770d3579..1571957bade5 100644
> > --- a/arch/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> > @@ -632,6 +632,7 @@ config HAS_LTO_CLANG
> > def_bool y
> > # Clang >= 11: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/510
> > depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION >= 110000 && LD_IS_LLD && AS_IS_LLVM
> > + depends on MAKE_VERSION_INT >= 40200
>
> If the bug depends on CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, should this be
>
> depends on !MODVERSIONS || MAKE_VERSION >= 40200
>
> ? Especially since the problematic block in your original report is
> gated on CONFIG_LTO_CLANG + CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
>

You're right, I'll fix it in v2, thanks for reviewing.


> > depends on $(success,$(NM) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
> > depends on $(success,$(AR) --help | head -n 1 | grep -qi llvm)
> > depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_LTO_CLANG
> >