From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:30:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmc-1BrXG01d0PzjqhJsVbgwUMm6mxR4BcTqZ9WKtS6HA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190912054304.GA103826@archlinux-threadripper>
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:43 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 02:01:59PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 11:21 AM Nathan Chancellor
> > <natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > r370454 gives LLVM the ability to convert certain loops into a reference
> > > to bcmp as an optimization; this breaks prom_init_check.sh:
> > >
> > > CALL arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check.sh
> > > Error: External symbol 'bcmp' referenced from prom_init.c
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:196: prom_init_check] Error 1
> > >
> > > bcmp is defined in lib/string.c as a wrapper for memcmp so this could be
> > > added to the whitelist. However, commit 450e7dd4001f ("powerpc/prom_init:
> > > don't use string functions from lib/") copied memcmp as prom_memcmp to
> > > avoid KASAN instrumentation so having bcmp be resolved to regular memcmp
> > > would break that assumption. Furthermore, because the compiler is the
> > > one that inserted bcmp, we cannot provide something like prom_bcmp.
> > >
> > > To prevent LLVM from being clever with optimizations like this, use
> > > -ffreestanding to tell LLVM we are not hosted so it is not free to make
> > > transformations like this.
> > >
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/647
> > > Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/5c9f3cfec78f9e9ae013de9a0d092a68e3e79e002
> >
> > The above link doesn't work for me (HTTP 404). PEBKAC?
> > https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/5c9f3cfec78f9e9ae013de9a0d092a68e3e79e002
>
> Not really sure how an extra 2 got added on the end of that... Must have
> screwed up in vim somehow.
>
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/5c9f3cfec78f9e9ae013de9a0d092a68e3e79e00
That looks better. Assuming Michael doesn't mind amending the link
when applying:
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulneris <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>
> I can resend unless the maintainer is able to fix that up when it gets
> applied.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-12 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-11 18:20 [PATCH v3 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for pseries_defconfig Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 18:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 18:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 20:55 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-09-11 18:20 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 21:01 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-09-12 5:43 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-12 17:30 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2019-10-14 2:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for pseries_defconfig Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 2:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 2:51 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 2:51 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 9:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-14 15:56 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-14 19:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-18 19:00 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-18 20:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-22 5:15 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-22 8:57 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-30 4:12 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 16:03 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for pseries_defconfig Nick Desaulniers
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for a few defconfigs Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-26 1:13 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-25 20:15 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for a few defconfigs Nick Desaulniers
2019-11-28 4:59 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-28 7:45 ` Nathan Chancellor
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