Regression: Can't compile x86_64 with 32 Bit userland: arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not supported in the 32 bit mode

Regression: Can't compile x86_64 with 32 Bit userland: arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not supported in the 32 bit mode

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello,
I used to compile 64 Bit Kernel on 32 Bit Userland and until v3.16 it
worked. But with todays git head from Linus it does not:

(mini) [~/work/linux-2.6] make                                                                                                                                                                         scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
  CHK     include/config/kernel.release
  UPD     include/config/kernel.release
  CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  UPD     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  CC      arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not supported in the 32 bit mode
make[1]: *** [arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o] Error 1
make: *** [archprepare] Error 2

I'll do git bisect to identify the offending commit.

I'm using Debian Wheezy 7 32 Bit on x86 with gcc version 4.7.2 (Debian
4.7.2-5).

Cheers,
        Thomas

REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello Vivek,
commit 8fc5b4d introduces a regression that no longer allows to compile
x86_64 kernel under x86_32 userland. TJ on freenode/#kernel did analyze
it:

> (mini) [~/work/linux-2.6] make
> scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
>   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
>   UPD     include/config/kernel.release
>   CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
>   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   UPD     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>   CC      arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
> arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not supported in the 32 bit mode
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o] Error 1
> make: *** [archprepare] Error 2

08:10 < TJ-> Glanzmann: The purgatory code from kexec is specifying ".code64"
08:11 < TJ-> Glanzmann: so when your local 32-bit linker tries to deal with that ... it errors
08:14 < TJ-> Glanzmann: there's only one introducing the purgatory stuff
08:14 < TJ-> 8fc5b4d Fri Aug 8 15:57:32 2014 -0700 Vivek Goyal purgatory: core purgatory functionality

Cheers,
        Thomas

Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:24:08AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello Vivek,
> commit 8fc5b4d introduces a regression that no longer allows to compile
> x86_64 kernel under x86_32 userland. TJ on freenode/#kernel did analyze
> it:
> 
> > (mini) [~/work/linux-2.6] make
> > scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
> >   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
> >   UPD     include/config/kernel.release
> >   CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
> >   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
> >   UPD     include/generated/utsrelease.h
> >   CC      arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
> > arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not supported in the 32 bit mode
> > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [archprepare] Error 2
> 
> 08:10 < TJ-> Glanzmann: The purgatory code from kexec is specifying ".code64"
> 08:11 < TJ-> Glanzmann: so when your local 32-bit linker tries to deal with that ... it errors
> 08:14 < TJ-> Glanzmann: there's only one introducing the purgatory stuff
> 08:14 < TJ-> 8fc5b4d Fri Aug 8 15:57:32 2014 -0700 Vivek Goyal purgatory: core purgatory functionality

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the report. I think this is also happening because purgatory is
right now being compiled with compiler option -mcmodel=large. There was
another report where older version of gcc did not support -mcmodel=large.

A patch is sitting in akpm's tree. That patch puts the new code under
a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. So as long as you don't enable
CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y, you should be fine. This should not impact any of
the existing functionality. Just that you will not get the benefit of
new system call.

http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-create-a-new-config-option-config_kexec_file-for-new-syscall.patch

I hope this patch gets merged soon.

In the mean time I am trying to figure out how can I move away from
using -mcmodel=large for purgatory.

Thanks
Vivek

Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[H. Peter Anvin]

It says "32-bit mode" which means it is another issue: we are dropping -m64 at some point.

On August 20, 2014 7:56:30 AM CDT, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:24:08AM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
>> Hello Vivek,
>> commit 8fc5b4d introduces a regression that no longer allows to
>compile
>> x86_64 kernel under x86_32 userland. TJ on freenode/#kernel did
>analyze
>> it:
>> 
>> > (mini) [~/work/linux-2.6] make
>> > scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig
>> >   CHK     include/config/kernel.release
>> >   UPD     include/config/kernel.release
>> >   CHK     include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
>> >   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>> >   UPD     include/generated/utsrelease.h
>> >   CC      arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
>> > arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.c:1:0: error: code model 'large' not
>supported in the 32 bit mode
>> > make[1]: *** [arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o] Error 1
>> > make: *** [archprepare] Error 2
>> 
>> 08:10 < TJ-> Glanzmann: The purgatory code from kexec is specifying
>".code64"
>> 08:11 < TJ-> Glanzmann: so when your local 32-bit linker tries to
>deal with that ... it errors
>> 08:14 < TJ-> Glanzmann: there's only one introducing the purgatory
>stuff
>> 08:14 < TJ-> 8fc5b4d Fri Aug 8 15:57:32 2014 -0700 Vivek Goyal
>purgatory: core purgatory functionality
>
>Hi Thomas,
>
>Thanks for the report. I think this is also happening because purgatory
>is
>right now being compiled with compiler option -mcmodel=large. There was
>another report where older version of gcc did not support
>-mcmodel=large.
>
>A patch is sitting in akpm's tree. That patch puts the new code under
>a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. So as long as you don't enable
>CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y, you should be fine. This should not impact any of
>the existing functionality. Just that you will not get the benefit of
>new system call.
>
>http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-create-a-new-config-option-config_kexec_file-for-new-syscall.patch
>
>I hope this patch gets merged soon.
>
>In the mean time I am trying to figure out how can I move away from
>using -mcmodel=large for purgatory.
>
>Thanks
>Vivek

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Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:07:01AM -0500, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It says "32-bit mode" which means it is another issue: we are dropping -m64 at some point.

Thanks hpa. I am not adding -m64 to kbuild flags at all. So 32bit tool
chain must be assuming -m32 by default, and probably that's the issue.

Thomas, 

Can you please try attached single line patch and see if it fixes the
issue for you.

Thanks
Vivek


---
 arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile	2014-08-20 11:32:21.723559119 -0400
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile	2014-08-20 11:32:23.654570231 -0400
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ targets += purgatory.ro
 # sure how to relocate those. Like kexec-tools, use custom flags.
 
 KBUILD_CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -c -MD -Os -mcmodel=large
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS)
 
 $(obj)/purgatory.ro: $(PURGATORY_OBJS) FORCE
 		$(call if_changed,ld)

Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello Vivek,

* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> [2014-08-20 17:48]:
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile	2014-08-20 11:32:21.723559119 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile	2014-08-20 11:32:23.654570231 -0400
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ targets += purgatory.ro
>  # sure how to relocate those. Like kexec-tools, use custom flags.

>  KBUILD_CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -c -MD -Os -mcmodel=large
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS)

>  $(obj)/purgatory.ro: $(PURGATORY_OBJS) FORCE
>  		$(call if_changed,ld)

> Can you please try attached single line patch and see if it fixes the
> issue for you.

I tested the same and it works.

Tested-by: Thomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>

...
  CC      arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.o
  AS      arch/x86/purgatory/stack.o
  AS      arch/x86/purgatory/setup-x86_64.o
  CC      arch/x86/purgatory/sha256.o
  AS      arch/x86/purgatory/entry64.o
  CC      arch/x86/purgatory/string.o
  LD      arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro
  BIN2C   arch/x86/purgatory/kexec-purgatory.c
...

I also made sure that I backed out the other patch _before_ I tried this one.

Cheers,
        Thomas

Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[H. Peter Anvin]

Yes, that is exactly right.  The lack of -m64 is a bug.

On August 20, 2014 10:48:18 AM CDT, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:07:01AM -0500, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> It says "32-bit mode" which means it is another issue: we are
>dropping -m64 at some point.
>
>Thanks hpa. I am not adding -m64 to kbuild flags at all. So 32bit tool
>chain must be assuming -m32 by default, and probably that's the issue.
>
>Thomas, 
>
>Can you please try attached single line patch and see if it fixes the
>issue for you.
>
>Thanks
>Vivek
>
>
>---
> arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile |    1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
>Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
>===================================================================
>--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile	2014-08-20
>11:32:21.723559119 -0400
>+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile	2014-08-20 11:32:23.654570231
>-0400
>@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ targets += purgatory.ro
> # sure how to relocate those. Like kexec-tools, use custom flags.
> 
>KBUILD_CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
>-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -c -MD -Os
>-mcmodel=large
>+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS)
> 
> $(obj)/purgatory.ro: $(PURGATORY_OBJS) FORCE
> 		$(call if_changed,ld)

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Re: REGRESSION: 8fc5b4d: Unable to compile x86_64 kernel with x86_32 userland

[Thomas Glanzmann]

Hello Vivek,

* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> [2014-08-20 15:53]:
> A patch is sitting in akpm's tree. That patch puts the new code under
> a new config option CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE. So as long as you don't enable
> CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE=y, you should be fine. This should not impact any of
> the existing functionality. Just that you will not get the benefit of
> new system call.

> http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kexec-create-a-new-config-option-config_kexec_file-for-new-syscall.patch

> I hope this patch gets merged soon.

> In the mean time I am trying to figure out how can I move away from
> using -mcmodel=large for purgatory.

perfect. I tried the patch and with the patch the kernel compiles again.

Cheers,
        Thomas