From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
James Y Knight <jyknight@google.com>,
clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Add '-fno-builtin-bcmp' to CLANG_FLAGS
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:55:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmVWrrVWeuh6efnwreS4kp1L_kJ-FbKVGux8ZdiqvYCDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190312215203.27643-1-natechancellor@gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:53 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After LLVM revision r355672 [1], all known working kernel configurations
> fail to link [2]:
>
> ld: init/do_mounts.o: in function `prepare_namespace':
> do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x5ca): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x5e6): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: init/initramfs.o: in function `do_header':
> initramfs.c:(.init.text+0x6e0): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: initramfs.c:(.init.text+0x6f8): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: arch/x86/kernel/setup.o: in function `setup_arch':
> setup.c:(.init.text+0x21d): undefined reference to `bcmp'
>
> Commit 6edfba1b33c7 ("[PATCH] x86_64: Don't define string functions to
> builtin") removed '-ffreestanding' globally and the kernel doesn't
> provide a bcmp definition so the linker cannot find a reference to it.
>
> Fix this by explicitly telling LLVM through Clang not to emit bcmp
> references. This flag does not need to be behind 'cc-option' because all
> working versions of Clang support this flag.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13
> [2]: https://travis-ci.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/builds/104027249
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Thanks for this patch. Can the maintainers please consider this an
emergency patch; without it, the recent change to LLVM has caused ALL
of our CI targets to go red.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> ---
> Makefile | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 9ef547fc7ffe..6645a274b6e3 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ ifneq ($(GCC_TOOLCHAIN),)
> CLANG_FLAGS += --gcc-toolchain=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN)
> endif
> CLANG_FLAGS += -no-integrated-as
> +CLANG_FLAGS += -fno-builtin-bcmp
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
> KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
> export CLANG_FLAGS
> --
> 2.21.0
>
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-12 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-12 21:52 [PATCH] Makefile: Add '-fno-builtin-bcmp' to CLANG_FLAGS Nathan Chancellor
2019-03-12 22:55 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2019-03-13 8:13 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-03-13 10:58 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-13 13:44 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-03-13 13:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-03-13 15:32 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-03-13 17:21 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 17:27 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 18:02 ` [PATCH] lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 18:11 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 18:17 ` [PATCH v2] " Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 18:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-13 18:51 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 19:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-13 19:34 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-03-13 20:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-13 20:37 ` [PATCH v3] " Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-13 21:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-13 21:13 ` [PATCH v4] " Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-14 3:15 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-03-14 5:00 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-14 8:33 ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-14 9:57 ` David Laight
2019-03-14 11:07 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-03-21 2:11 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-21 17:02 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-21 17:20 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-21 21:05 ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-22 7:17 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-03-22 7:43 ` Sedat Dilek
2019-03-13 19:38 ` [PATCH] Makefile: Add '-fno-builtin-bcmp' to CLANG_FLAGS Arnd Bergmann
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