Re: rcutorture initrd/nolibc build on ARMv8?

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > | ${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident \
> > |         -nostdlib -include ../../../../include/nolibc/nolibc.h \
> > |         -lgcc -s -static -Os -o init init.c
> 
> OK I'll retry this, thank you!

For me on my x86 PC it worked using a cross-compiler:

  $ /f/tc/gcc-linaro-6.4.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -nostdlib -include tools/include/nolibc/nolibc.h -lgcc -s -static -Os -o init-fail init-fail.c 
  $ file init-fail
  init-fail: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, BuildID[sha1]=1088f8fad85b7b8a7f00eef4918d24c4c4fdaadf, stripped

Given that you used a native compiler we can't suspect an issue with a
bare-metal compiler possibly affecting how kernel headers are passed
there. But nevertheless, I'd still not disregard the possibility that
the headers found under "linux/" are picked from the libc which for
whatever reason would be missing a lot of them.

I've now tested natively on a local rpi4b onto which I copied the files
(not enough I/O BW on the SD card to clone a kernel there). Tried:

  $ gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -nostdlib -include nolibc.h -lgcc -s -static -Os -o init-fail init-fail.c
  specs.
  COLLECT_GCC=gcc
  COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-linux-gnu/7/lto-wrapper
  Target: aarch64-linux-gnu
  Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --with-gcc-major-version-only --program-suffix=-7 --program-prefix=aarch64-linux-gnu- --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-bootstrap --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libquadmath --disable-libquadmath-support --enable-plugin --enable-default-pie --with-system-zlib --enable-multiarch --enable-fix-cortex-a53-843419 --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --build=aarch64-linux-gnu --host=aarch64-linux-gnu --target=aarch64-linux-gnu
  Thread model: posix
  gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 

Could you please check the output of this from your intermediary "init.c"
file:

   $ gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -nostdlib -include tools/include/nolibc/nolibc.h -lgcc -s -static -E  init.c | grep '^#'

It might give us a clue about where it's finding its includes. And possibly
the list of __NR_ entries reported here as well:

   $ gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -nostdlib -include tools/include/nolibc/nolibc.h -lgcc -s -static -E -dM init.c | grep __NR_

We've seen that __NR_fork or __NR_dup2 for example were missing in your
output, on my native machine I can see them, so that could give us a clue
about the root cause of the issue:

  $ gcc -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-ident -nostdlib -include nolibc.h -lgcc -s -static -E -dM init-fail.c | egrep '__NR_(fork|dup2)'
  #define __NR_dup2 1041
  #define __NR_syscalls (__NR_fork+1)
  #define __NR_fork 1079

I could easily imagine a missing "linux" link or entry somewhere in the
default includes path, but here since there's no such error it rather looks
like an incorrect file which is a bit more concerning. I purposely avoided
to maintain my own definitions for __NR_* let's hope we won't need to do
that :-/

Thanks,
Willy