Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] riscv: vdso: Prevent gcc from inserting calls to memset()

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 23:09:01 PDT (-0700), alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> gcc is smart enough to insert a call to memset() in
> riscv_vdso_get_cpus(), which generates a dynamic relocation.
>
> So prevent gcc from doing that by using the
> -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns option.

This option doesn't exist on LLVM (at least on whatever version I'm 
using), and I'm not getting any memset()s generated locally so I'm not 
sure what to look for over there.

> From poking around GCC it looks like we might want -fno-tree-ccp too?  
That seems to be able to convert assignments into builtins as well...

> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> index f7ef8ad9b550..c7e40bf36371 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
> @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ obj-vdso = $(patsubst %, %.o, $(vdso-syms)) note.o
>
>  ccflags-y := -fno-stack-protector
>  ccflags-y += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
> +ccflags-y += -fno-tree-loop-distribute-patterns
>
>  ifneq ($(c-gettimeofday-y),)
>    CFLAGS_vgettimeofday.o += -fPIC -include $(c-gettimeofday-y)