Re: mainline build failure of powerpc allmodconfig for prom_init_check

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 9:55 AM Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)
<sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Not sure if it has been reported before but the latest mainline kernel
> branch fails to build for powerpc allmodconfig with gcc-12 and the error is:
>
> Error: External symbol 'memset' referenced from prom_init.c
> make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile:204: arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init_check] Error 1

I was trying to check it. With gcc-11 the assembly code generated is
not using memset, but using __memset.
But with gcc-12, I can see the assembly code is using memset. One
example from the assembly:

call_prom:
        .quad   .call_prom,.TOC.@tocbase,0
        .previous
        .size   call_prom,24
        .type   .call_prom,@function
.call_prom:
        mflr 0           #,
        std 29,-24(1)    #,
        std 30,-16(1)    #,
        std 31,-8(1)     #,
        mr 29,3          # tmp166, service
        mr 31,4          # nargs, tmp167
        mr 30,5          # tmp168, nret
 # arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c:396:         struct prom_args args;
        li 4,254                 #,
        li 5,52          #,
 # arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c:394: {
        std 0,16(1)      #,
        stdu 1,-208(1)   #,,
 # arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c:396:         struct prom_args args;
        addi 3,1,112     # tmp174,,
 # arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c:394: {
        std 9,304(1)     #,
        std 10,312(1)    #,
        std 6,280(1)     #,
        std 7,288(1)     #,
        std 8,296(1)     #,
 # arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c:396:         struct prom_args args;
        bl .memset       #
        nop
        rldicl 9,31,0,32         # nargs, nargs
        addi 9,9,1       # tmp163, nargs,
        mtctr 9          # tmp163, tmp163



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Regards
Sudip