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author | Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> | 2018-08-21 01:36:17 +0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-11-04 16:52:46 +0300 |
commit | 3c3bec81e267a6be198c540ea8d6f80e8f51b433 (patch) | |
tree | 167b6b5eb8906fe4e0bceb36fb5d7155c236dfc6 /arch/Kconfig | |
parent | b8f4d375cd1ebc1bb5fbb174a0237eff24dcbd68 (diff) | |
download | linux-3c3bec81e267a6be198c540ea8d6f80e8f51b433.tar.xz |
compiler.h: Allow arch-specific asm/compiler.h
[ Upstream commit 04f264d3a8b0eb25d378127bd78c3c9a0261c828 ]
We have a need to override the definition of
barrier_before_unreachable() for MIPS, which means we either need to add
architecture-specific code into linux/compiler-gcc.h or we need to allow
the architecture to provide a header that can define the macro before
the generic definition. The latter seems like the better approach.
A straightforward approach to the per-arch header is to make use of
asm-generic to provide a default empty header & adjust architectures
which don't need anything specific to make use of that by adding the
header to generic-y. Unfortunately this doesn't work so well due to
commit 28128c61e08e ("kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed
struct attributes") which caused linux/compiler_types.h to be included
in the compilation of every C file via the -include linux/kconfig.h flag
in c_flags.
Because the -include flag is present for all C files we compile, we need
the architecture-provided header to be present before any C files are
compiled. If any C files can be compiled prior to the asm-generic header
wrappers being generated then we hit a build failure due to missing
header. Such cases do exist - one pointed out by the kbuild test robot
is the compilation of arch/ia64/kernel/nr-irqs.c, which occurs as part
of the archprepare target [1].
This leaves us with a few options:
1) Use generic-y & fix any build failures we find by enforcing
ordering such that the asm-generic target occurs before any C
compilation, such that linux/compiler_types.h can always include
the generated asm-generic wrapper which in turn includes the empty
asm-generic header. This would rely on us finding all the
problematic cases - I don't know for sure that the ia64 issue is
the only one.
2) Add an actual empty header to each architecture, so that we don't
need the generated asm-generic wrapper. This seems messy.
3) Give up & add #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS or similar to
linux/compiler_types.h. This seems messy too.
4) Include the arch header only when it's actually needed, removing
the need for the asm-generic wrapper for all other architectures.
This patch allows us to use approach 4, by including an asm/compiler.h
header from linux/compiler_types.h after the inclusion of the
compiler-specific linux/compiler-*.h header(s). We do this
conditionally, only when CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H is selected, in
order to avoid the need for asm-generic wrappers & the associated build
ordering issue described above. The asm/compiler.h header is included
after the generic linux/compiler-*.h header(s) for consistency with the
way linux/compiler-intel.h & linux/compiler-clang.h are included after
the linux/compiler-gcc.h header that they override.
[1] https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2018-August/051175.html
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20269/
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 40dc31fea90c..77b3e21c4844 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -965,4 +965,12 @@ config REFCOUNT_FULL against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in security flaw exploits. +config HAVE_ARCH_COMPILER_H + bool + help + An architecture can select this if it provides an + asm/compiler.h header that should be included after + linux/compiler-*.h in order to override macro definitions that those + headers generally provide. + source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig" |