Re: [PATCH 01/10] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of GCC to 5.1

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:56 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/10/2021 4:40 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > commit fad7cd3310db ("nbd: add the check to prevent overflow in
> > __nbd_ioctl()")
> >
> > raised an issue from the fallback helpers added in
> >
> > commit f0907827a8a9 ("compiler.h: enable builtin overflow checkers and add fallback code")
> >
> > Specifically, the helpers for checking whether the results of a
> > multiplication overflowed (__unsigned_mul_overflow,
> > __signed_add_overflow) use the division operator when
> > !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW. This is problematic for 64b
> > operands on 32b hosts.
>
> "hosts" -> "targets" or "architectures"?

Yes, will revise to "targets."

>
> It might be worth putting the error that Stephen found here?

Doh! Yes, in v2, I'll include the following additional context:
```
The following error is observed when building for 32b powerpc:
> ERROR: modpost: "__divdi3" [drivers/block/nbd.ko] undefined!

As Stephen Rothwell notes:
> The added check_mul_overflow() call is being passed 64 bit values.
> COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW is not set for this build (see
> include/linux/overflow.h).
```


>
> > Also, because the macro is type agnostic, it is very difficult to write
> > a similarly type generic macro that dispatches to one of:
> > * div64_s64
> > * div64_u64
> > * div_s64
> > * div_u64
> >
> > Raising the minimum supported versions allows us to remove all of the
> > fallback helpers for !COMPILER_HAS_GENERIC_BUILTIN_OVERFLOW, instead
> > dispatching the compiler builtins.
> >
> > arm64 has already raised the minimum supported GCC version to 5.1, do
> > this for all targets now. See the link below for the previous
> > discussion.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210909182525.372ee687@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAK7LNASs6dvU6D3jL2GG3jW58fXfaj6VNOe55NJnTB8UPuk2pA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1438
> > Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> >   Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 +-
> >   scripts/min-tool-version.sh       | 8 +-------
> >   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> > index d3a8557b66a1..e35ab74a0f80 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ you probably needn't concern yourself with pcmciautils.
> >   ====================== ===============  ========================================
> >           Program        Minimal version       Command to check the version
> >   ====================== ===============  ========================================
> > -GNU C                  4.9              gcc --version
> > +GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
> >   Clang/LLVM (optional)  10.0.1           clang --version
> >   GNU make               3.81             make --version
> >   binutils               2.23             ld -v
> > diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> > index 319f92104f56..4edc708baa63 100755
> > --- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> > +++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> > @@ -17,13 +17,7 @@ binutils)
> >       echo 2.23.0
> >       ;;
> >   gcc)
> > -     # https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63293
> > -     # https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210107111841.GN1551@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > -     if [ "$SRCARCH" = arm64 ]; then
> > -             echo 5.1.0
> > -     else
> > -             echo 4.9.0
> > -     fi
> > +     echo 5.1.0
> >       ;;
> >   icc)
> >       # temporary
> >



-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers