Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: Check for unknown options with cc-option usage in Kconfig and clang

[Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>]

Hi.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:47 AM Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> If the particular version of clang a user has doesn't enable
> -Werror=unknown-warning-option by default, even though it is the
> default[1], then make sure to pass the option to the Kconfig cc-option
> command so that testing options from Kconfig files works properly.
> Otherwise, depending on the default values setup in the clang toolchain
> we will silently assume options such as -Wmaybe-uninitialized are
> supported by clang, when they really aren't.
>
> A compilation issue only started happening for me once commit
> 589834b3a009 ("kbuild: Add -Werror=unknown-warning-option to
> CLANG_FLAGS") was applied on top of commit b303c6df80c9 ("kbuild:
> compute false-positive -Wmaybe-uninitialized cases in Kconfig"). This
> leads kbuild to try and test for the existence of the
> -Wmaybe-uninitialized flag with the cc-option command in
> scripts/Kconfig.include, and it doesn't see an error returned from the
> option test so it sets the config value to Y. Then the Makefile tries to
> pass the unknown option on the command line and
> -Werror=unknown-warning-option catches the invalid option and breaks the
> build. Before commit 589834b3a009 ("kbuild: Add
> -Werror=unknown-warning-option to CLANG_FLAGS") the build works fine,
> but any cc-option test of a warning option in Kconfig files silently
> evaluates to true, even if the warning option flag isn't supported on
> clang.
>
> Note: This doesn't change cc-option usages in Makefiles because those
> use a different rule that includes KBUILD_CFLAGS by default (see the
> __cc-option command in scripts/Kbuild.incluide). The KBUILD_CFLAGS
> variable already has the -Werror=unknown-warning-option flag set. Thanks
> to Doug for pointing out the different rule.
>
> [1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wunknown-warning-option
> Cc: Peter Smith <peter.smith@linaro.org>
> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
> ---

Thanks for catching this.

I wonder if we could fix this issue
by one-liner, like this:


diff --git a/scripts/Kconfig.include b/scripts/Kconfig.include
index 8a5c4d645eb1..4bbf4fc163a2 100644
--- a/scripts/Kconfig.include
+++ b/scripts/Kconfig.include
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ failure = $(if-success,$(1),n,y)

 # $(cc-option,<flag>)
 # Return y if the compiler supports <flag>, n otherwise
-cc-option = $(success,$(CC) -Werror $(1) -E -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null)
+cc-option = $(success,$(CC) -Werror $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(1) -E -x c
/dev/null -o /dev/null)

 # $(ld-option,<flag>)
 # Return y if the linker supports <flag>, n otherwise



This propagates not only -Werror=unknown-warning-option
but also other clang flags to Kconfig.


Currently, we do not pass the target triplet to Kconfig.
This means, cc-option in Kconfig evaluates the given flags
against host-arch instead of target-arch.
The compiler flags are mostly independent of the architecture,
and this is not a big deal, I think.
But, maybe, would it make more sense to pass the other
basic clang flags as well?


To do this, the following is necessary as a prerequisite:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11063507/

Anyway, uninitialized CLANG_FLAGS is a bug, which must be
back-ported.


Thanks.








> Changes from v1:
>  * Reworded commit text a bit
>  * Added Reviewed-by tag
>
>  Makefile                | 5 +++++
>  scripts/Kconfig.include | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 9be5834073f8..28177674178a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -517,6 +517,8 @@ ifdef building_out_of_srctree
>         { echo "# this is build directory, ignore it"; echo "*"; } > .gitignore
>  endif
>
> +KCONFIG_CC_OPTION_FLAGS := -Werror
> +
>  ifneq ($(shell $(CC) --version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep clang),)
>  ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
>  CLANG_FLAGS    := --target=$(notdir $(CROSS_COMPILE:%-=%))
> @@ -531,11 +533,14 @@ ifeq ($(shell $(AS) --version 2>&1 | head -n 1 | grep clang),)
>  CLANG_FLAGS    += -no-integrated-as
>  endif
>  CLANG_FLAGS    += -Werror=unknown-warning-option
> +KCONFIG_CC_OPTION_FLAGS += -Werror=unknown-warning-option
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS  += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS  += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
>  export CLANG_FLAGS
>  endif
>
> +export KCONFIG_CC_OPTION_FLAGS
> +
>  # The expansion should be delayed until arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile is included.
>  # Some architectures define CROSS_COMPILE in arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile.
>  # CC_VERSION_TEXT is referenced from Kconfig (so it needs export),
> diff --git a/scripts/Kconfig.include b/scripts/Kconfig.include
> index 8a5c4d645eb1..144e83e7cb81 100644
> --- a/scripts/Kconfig.include
> +++ b/scripts/Kconfig.include
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ failure = $(if-success,$(1),n,y)
>
>  # $(cc-option,<flag>)
>  # Return y if the compiler supports <flag>, n otherwise
> -cc-option = $(success,$(CC) -Werror $(1) -E -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null)
> +cc-option = $(success,$(CC) $(KCONFIG_CC_OPTION_FLAGS) $(1) -E -x c /dev/null -o /dev/null)
>
>  # $(ld-option,<flag>)
>  # Return y if the linker supports <flag>, n otherwise
> --
> Sent by a computer through tubes
>


--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada