From: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Delete unneeded .globl _zimage_start
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:34:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200325163434.qvm3h57slivq52eu@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200325083702.GE4583@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On 2020-03-25, Alan Modra wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 05:22:31AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
>> On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 05:19, Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > .globl sets the symbol binding to STB_GLOBAL while .weak sets the
>> > binding to STB_WEAK. They should not be used together. It is accidetal
>> > rather then intentional that GNU as let .weak override .globl while
>> > clang integrated assembler let the last win.
>
>No, it isn't accidental. gas deliberately lets .weak override .globl.
>Since 1996-07-26, git commit 5ca547dc239
Fair. I am sadded by this commit.
% sed -n 'N;/.globl.*\n.*.weak/p;D' binutils-gdb/gas/testsuite/**/*(.)
I checked all occurrences and none is a real test excercising the behavior (.weak override .globl).
All seem accidental.
It is unclear that clang integrated assembler should copy this
behavior, though. For the record, I asked on binutils@sourceware.org
whether the assembler should error when .weak/.local can override a
previous binding directive. It was rejected
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-March/110376.html
On the clang integrated assembler side, we may try building things with
an error or leave the overriding behavior as is.
>I'm fine with the patch so far as it is true that there is no need for
>both .globl and .weak (and it looks silly to have both), but the
>explanation isn't true. The patch is needed because the clang
>assembler is incompatible with gas in this detail.
Since using one of .weak|.globl is nearly well-known, I'll send PATCH v2 with
the description updated.
On 2020-03-25, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>Nothing is "overridden".
>
>The as manual says (.weak):
>
> This directive sets the weak attribute on the comma separated list of
> symbol 'names'. If the symbols do not already exist, they will be
> created.
>
>so this behaviour is obviously as intended (or was later documented in
>any case), so LLVM has a bug to fix (whether you like this (much saner)
>behaviour or not).
I will probably not call this a bug. I have recently discovered other
discrepancy for which I think copying gas behaviors can just clutter up the
code. We may need our own assembler documentation at some point.
>> > Fixes: cd197ffcf10b "[POWERPC] zImage: Cleanup and improve zImage entry point"
>> > Fixes: ee9d21b3b358 "powerpc/boot: Ensure _zimage_start is a weak symbol"
>> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/937
>> > Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
>> > Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
>> > Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
>> > Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>> > Cc: clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com
>> > ---
>> > arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S | 3 ---
>> > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S b/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
>> > index 92608f34d312..1d83966f5ef6 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/crt0.S
>> > @@ -44,9 +44,6 @@ p_end: .long _end
>> > p_pstack: .long _platform_stack_top
>> > #endif
>> >
>> > - .globl _zimage_start
>> > - /* Clang appears to require the .weak directive to be after the symbol
>> > - * is defined. See https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38921 */
>> > .weak _zimage_start
>> > _zimage_start:
>>
>> Your explanation makes sense to me. I've added Alan to cc for his review.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
>>
>> Thanks for the patch.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Joel
>>
>> > .globl _zimage_start_lib
>> > --
>> > 2.25.1.696.g5e7596f4ac-goog
>
>--
>Alan Modra
>Australia Development Lab, IBM
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-25 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-25 5:18 [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Delete unneeded .globl _zimage_start Fangrui Song
2020-03-25 5:22 ` Joel Stanley
2020-03-25 8:37 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-25 16:34 ` Fangrui Song [this message]
2020-03-25 6:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-03-25 10:42 ` Michael Ellerman
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