Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: add --target to correctly cross-compile UAPI headers with Clang

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 4:56 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When you compile-test UAPI headers (CONFIG_UAPI_HEADER_TEST=y) with
> Clang, they are currently compiled for the host target (likely x86_64)
> regardless of the given ARCH=.
>
> In fact, some exported headers include libc headers. For example,
> include/uapi/linux/agpgart.h includes <stdlib.h> after being exported.
> The header search paths should match to the target we are compiling
> them for.

Isn't that a bug in that header though? Why does it inconsistently use
size_t vs. __kernel_size_t. Shouldn't it be consistently using
__kernel_size_t? (Seeing TRUE/FALSE defined in such a low level header
is also *yikes*.) Are there platforms where sizeof(size_t) !=
sizeof(__kernel_size_t)?

Usually to bootstrap a toolchain you need to start with kernel headers
to bootstrap the libc.  It seems like some kind of circular dependency
to me if kernel headers are dependent on libc headers. Hence my
previous comment about -ffreestanding.

>
> Pick up the --target triple from KBUILD_CFLAGS in the same ways as
> commit 7f58b487e9ff ("kbuild: make Clang build userprogs for target
> architecture").

Oh boy thanks for finding+fixing this! I still suspect we shouldn't
need a cross-libc for UAPI header testing, and that the kernel headers
simply need to be cleaned up. But regardless of that it doesn't make
sense to use the wrong target when checking headers generated for the
target. Thanks for the patch (and sorry I've been falling behind on
code review lately).

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Changes in v2:
>   - Reword the commit description to mention agpgart.h instead of
>     asound.h because the latter is in the no-header-test list.
>
>  usr/include/Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/usr/include/Makefile b/usr/include/Makefile
> index ac206fb27c65..4215801e1110 100644
> --- a/usr/include/Makefile
> +++ b/usr/include/Makefile
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ UAPI_CFLAGS := -std=c90 -Wall -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
>
>  # In theory, we do not care -m32 or -m64 for header compile tests.
>  # It is here just because CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is tested with -m32 or -m64.
> -UAPI_CFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
> +UAPI_CFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64 --target=%, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
>
>  # USERCFLAGS might contain sysroot location for CC.
>  UAPI_CFLAGS += $(USERCFLAGS)
> --
> 2.32.0
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers