Re: [PATCH 1/6] tools/rtla: Fix Makefile compiler options for clang

From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	Donald Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] tools/rtla: Fix Makefile compiler options for clang
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 08:48:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240206154835.GA1433705@dev-arch.thelio-3990X> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <567ac1b94effc228ce9a0225b9df7232a9b35b55.1707217097.git.bristot@kernel.org>

On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 12:05:29PM +0100, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira wrote:
> The following errors are showing up when compiling rtla with clang:
> 
>  $ make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1
>  [...]
> 
>   clang -O -g -DVERSION=\"6.8.0-rc1\" -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects
> 	-fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong
> 	-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection  -Wall
> 	-Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> 	-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
> 	$(pkg-config --cflags libtracefs)    -c -o src/utils.o src/utils.c
> 
>   clang: warning: optimization flag '-ffat-lto-objects' is not supported [-Wignored-optimization-argument]

For what it's worth, this flag is supported in clang 17.0.0 and newer:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/610fc5cbcc8b68879c562f6458608afe2473ab7f

But if it is not critical, just dropping the flag like you have done
here rather than conditionally supporting it is probably easier.

>   warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'; did you mean '-Wno-uninitialized'? [-Wunknown-warning-option]
>   1 warning generated.
> 
>   clang -o rtla -ggdb  src/osnoise.o src/osnoise_hist.o src/osnoise_top.o
>   src/rtla.o src/timerlat_aa.o src/timerlat.o src/timerlat_hist.o
>   src/timerlat_top.o src/timerlat_u.o src/trace.o src/utils.o $(pkg-config --libs libtracefs)
> 
>   src/osnoise.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized
>   clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
>   make: *** [Makefile:110: rtla] Error 1
> 
> Solve these issues by:
>   - removing -ffat-lto-objects and -Wno-maybe-uninitialized if using clang
>   - informing the linker about -flto=auto
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 1a7b22ab15eb ("tools/rtla: Build with EXTRA_{C,LD}FLAGS")
> Suggested-by: Donald Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile
> index 2456a399eb9a..afd18c678ff5 100644
> --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile
> @@ -28,10 +28,15 @@ FOPTS	:=	-flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong \
>  		-fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection
>  WOPTS	:= 	-Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized
>  
> +ifeq ($(CC),clang)
> +  FOPTS := $(filter-out -ffat-lto-objects, $(FOPTS))
> +  WOPTS := $(filter-out -Wno-maybe-uninitialized, $(WOPTS))
> +endif
> +
>  TRACEFS_HEADERS	:= $$($(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags libtracefs)
>  
>  CFLAGS	:=	-O -g -DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" $(FOPTS) $(MOPTS) $(WOPTS) $(TRACEFS_HEADERS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
> -LDFLAGS	:=	-ggdb $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
> +LDFLAGS	:=	-flto=auto -ggdb $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
>  LIBS	:=	$$($(PKG_CONFIG) --libs libtracefs)
>  
>  SRC	:=	$(wildcard src/*.c)
> -- 
> 2.43.0
> 