[PATCH 04/12] kbuild: userprogs: add nolibc support
From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Mon Feb 17 2025 - 06:02:12 EST
Userprogs are built with the regular kernel compiler $CC.
A kernel compiler does not necessarily contain a libc which is required
for a normal userspace application.
However the kernel tree does contain a minimal libc implementation
"nolibc" which can be used to build userspace applications.
Introduce support to build userprogs against nolibc instead of the
default C of the compiler, which may not exist.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This could probably be moved out of the generic kbuild makefiles.
I think the ergonimics would suffer and this functionality could be
used by other users of userprogs.
---
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
scripts/Makefile.userprogs | 14 +++++++++++---
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index d36519f194dc0d18b72a6f3ce7f3649f7c1b5637..cb859dc58b579def4995a5aa2efb45ab4ba3c93f 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -959,6 +959,18 @@ When linking bpfilter_umh, it will be passed the extra option -static.
From command line, :ref:`USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS <userkbuildflags>` will also be used.
+Bulding userprogs against nolibc
+--------------------------------
+
+Not all kernel toolchains provide a libc.
+Simple userprogs can be built against a very simple libc call "nolibc" provided
+by the kernel source tree.
+
+Example::
+
+ # lib/kunit/Makefile
+ uapi-preinit-nolibc := $(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NOLIBC)
+
When userspace programs are actually built
------------------------------------------
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.userprogs b/scripts/Makefile.userprogs
index debbf083bcfa01c89c204a322a1b17e2bdbe95a1..e94f3f2250f531dadbe00f5f5ee6f780bee22487 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.userprogs
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.userprogs
@@ -16,10 +16,18 @@ user-csingle := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(user-csingle))
user-cmulti := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(user-cmulti))
user-cobjs := $(addprefix $(obj)/, $(user-cobjs))
+user_nolibc_ccflags := -nostdlib -nostdinc -static -fno-ident -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables \
+ -ffreestanding $(call cc-option,-mstack-protector-guard=global) \
+ -isystem $(objtree)/usr/include -include $(srctree)/tools/include/nolibc/nolibc.h -isystem $(srctree)/tools/include/nolibc/
+user_nolibc_ldflags := -nostdlib -nostdinc -static
+user_nolibc_ldlibs := $(call cc-option,-lgcc)
+
user_ccflags = -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile) $(KBUILD_USERCFLAGS) $(userccflags) \
- $($(target-stem)-userccflags)
-user_ldflags = $(KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS) $(userldflags) $($(target-stem)-userldflags)
-user_ldlibs = $(userldlibs) $($(target-stem)-userldlibs)
+ $($(target-stem)-userccflags) $(if $($(target-stem)-nolibc),$(user_nolibc_ccflags))
+user_ldflags = $(KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS) $(userldflags) $($(target-stem)-userldflags) \
+ $(if $($(target-stem)-nolibc),$(user_nolibc_ldflags))
+user_ldlibs = $(userldlibs) $($(target-stem)-userldlibs) \
+ $(if $($(target-stem)-nolibc),$(user_nolibc_ldlibs))
ifdef CONFIG_WERROR
KBUILD_USERCFLAGS += -Werror
--
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