From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>,
kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
kbuild-all@lists.01.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Makefile: Improve compressed debug info support detection
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:38:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdksFqf11-sdLrvNe4wrRvyAB2mVfwKU4KkNsapSnN_tRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200611220339.3971675-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:03 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Commit
> 10e68b02c861 ("Makefile: support compressed debug info")
> added support for compressed debug sections.
>
> Support is detected by checking
> - does the compiler support -gz=zlib
> - does the assembler support --compressed-debug-sections=zlib
> - does the linker support --compressed-debug-sections=zlib
>
> However, the gcc driver's support for this option is somewhat
> convoluted. The driver's builtin specs are set based on the version of
> binutils that it was configured with. It reports an error if the
> configure-time linker/assembler (i.e., not necessarily the actual
> assembler that will be run) do not support the option, but only if the
> assembler (or linker) is actually invoked when -gz=zlib is passed.
>
> The cc-option check in scripts/Kconfig.include does not invoke the
> assembler, so the gcc driver reports success even if it does not support
> the option being passed to the assembler.
>
> Because the as-option check passes the option directly to the assembler
> via -Wa,--compressed-debug-sections=zlib, the gcc driver does not see
> this option and will never report an error.
Thanks for expanding on the failure.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>
> Combined with an installed version of binutils that is more recent than
> the one the compiler was built with, it is possible for all three tests
> to succeed, yet an actual compilation with -gz=zlib to fail.
>
> Moreover, it is unnecessary to explicitly pass
> --compressed-debug-sections=zlib to the assembler via -Wa, since the
> driver will do that automatically when it supports -gz=zlib.
>
> Convert the as-option to just -gz=zlib, simplifying it as well as
> performing a better test of the gcc driver's capabilities.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
> ---
> Makefile | 2 +-
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 839f9fee22cb..cb29e56f227a 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -842,7 +842,7 @@ endif
>
> ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
> DEBUG_CFLAGS += -gz=zlib
> -KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,--compress-debug-sections=zlib
> +KBUILD_AFLAGS += -gz=zlib
> KBUILD_LDFLAGS += --compress-debug-sections=zlib
> endif
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index cb98741601bd..94ce36be470c 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_COMPRESSED
> bool "Compressed debugging information"
> depends on DEBUG_INFO
> depends on $(cc-option,-gz=zlib)
> - depends on $(as-option,-Wa$(comma)--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
> + depends on $(as-option,-gz=zlib)
> depends on $(ld-option,--compress-debug-sections=zlib)
> help
> Compress the debug information using zlib. Requires GCC 5.0+ or Clang
> --
> 2.26.2
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-11 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-09 13:11 gcc-5: error: -gz is not supported in this configuration kernel test robot
2020-06-09 17:28 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-09 17:49 ` Fangrui Song
2020-06-10 0:30 ` [kbuild-all] " Rong Chen
2020-06-10 0:58 ` Fangrui Song
2020-06-10 1:49 ` Rong Chen
2020-06-10 3:12 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-10 3:23 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-10 4:26 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-10 6:37 ` Fangrui Song
2020-06-10 19:11 ` [PATCH] Makefile: Improve compressed debug info support detection Arvind Sankar
2020-06-10 21:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-10 23:30 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-10 23:39 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-11 20:44 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-11 21:44 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-11 21:09 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-06-11 21:52 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-06-11 22:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Arvind Sankar
2020-06-11 23:38 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2020-06-14 2:21 ` Masahiro Yamada
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