From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:01:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdnh+YoACaX4Oxk7ZiEQAQ2VgA6W=Dtbk7gzK5yJduFvGQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190911182049.77853-4-natechancellor@gmail.com>
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
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> ---
>
> New patch in the series so no previous version.
>
> arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> index 19f19c8c874b..aa78b3f6271e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ CFLAGS_prom_init.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
> CFLAGS_btext.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
> CFLAGS_prom.o += $(DISABLE_LATENT_ENTROPY_PLUGIN)
>
> -CFLAGS_prom_init.o += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
> +CFLAGS_prom_init.o += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) -ffreestanding
>
> ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER
> # Do not trace early boot code
> --
> 2.23.0
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-11 21:03 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 [this message]
2019-09-12 5:43 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-12 17:30 ` Nick Desaulniers
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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