Re: [PATCH 0000/2297] [ANNOUNCE, RFC] "Fast Kernel Headers" Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux kernel's "Dependency Hell"

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:49:04PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 5. Build error in arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe with LTO
> > 
> > With arm64 + CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN=y, I see:
> > 
> > $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 defconfig
> > 
> > $ scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
> > 
> > $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 olddefconfig arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/
> > ld.lld: error: arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds:2: unknown directive: .macro
> > >>> .macro __put, val, name
> > >>> ^
> > make[5]: *** [arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/Makefile:51: arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/kvm_nvhe.tmp.o] Error 1
> > 
> > I was not able to figure out the exact include chain but CONFIG_LTO
> > causes asm/alternative-macros.h to be included in asm/rwonce.h, which
> > eventually gets included in either asm/cache.h or asm/memory.h.
> > 
> > I managed to solve this with the following diff but I am not sure if
> > there is a better or cleaner way to do that.
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
> > index 1bce62fa908a..e19572a205d0 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h
> > @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> >  #ifndef __ASM_RWONCE_H
> >  #define __ASM_RWONCE_H
> >  
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_LTO
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_LTO) && !defined(LINKER_SCRIPT)
> >  
> >  #include <linux/compiler_types.h>
> >  #include <asm/alternative-macros.h>
> > @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
> >  })
> >  
> >  #endif	/* !BUILD_VDSO */
> > -#endif	/* CONFIG_LTO */
> > +#endif	/* CONFIG_LTO && !LINKER_SCRIPT */
> 
> So the error message suggests that the linker script somehow ends up 
> including asm-generic/export.h:
> 
>   kepler:~/mingo.tip.git> git grep 'macro __put'
>   include/asm-generic/export.h:.macro __put, val, name
> 
> ?

Correct.

> But I'd guess that similar to the __ASSEMBLY__ patterns we have in headers, 
> not including the rwonce.h bits if LINKER_SCRIPT is defined is probably 
> close to the right solution - but it would also know how such a low level 
> header ended up in a linker script. Might have been to pick up some offset 
> or size definition somewhere?
> 
> I.e. how did the build end up including asm/rwonce.h?
> 
> You can generally debug such weird dependency chains by putting a
> debug #warning into the affected header - such as the patch below.
> 
> This prints a stack of the header dependencies:
> 
>     CC      kernel/sched/core.o
>   In file included from ./include/linux/compiler.h:263,
>                  from ./include/linux/static_call_types.h:7,
>                  from ./include/linux/kernel.h:6,
>                  from ./include/linux/highmem.h:5,
>                  from kernel/sched/core.c:9:
>   ./arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h:8:2: warning: #warning debug [-Wcpp]
>       8 | #warning debug
> 
> ... and should in principle also work in the linker script context.

Neat trick! I added

#ifdef LINKER_SCRIPT
#warning debug
#endif

to arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h and built with ThinLTO, which reveals:

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 defconfig

$ scripts/config -d LTO_NONE -e LTO_CLANG_THIN

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=arm64 LLVM=1 olddefconfig arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/
In file included from arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/nvhe/hyp.lds.S:12:
In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h:18:
In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h:11:
In file included from ./include/linux/compiler.h:263:
./arch/arm64/include/asm/rwonce.h:9:2: warning: debug [-W#warnings]
#warning debug
 ^
1 warning generated.

I wonder if the compiler.h include could be broken up? I removed it
altogether just to see what would break and defconfig, defconfig +
CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN=y, and allmodconfig all continue to build.

Cheers,
Nathan