On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:46 AM, David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:10:23PM +0200, Emese Revfy wrote: >> >> This patch set introduce the GCC plugin infrastructure with examples for >> testing >> and documentation. >> >> GCC plugins are loadable modules that provide extra features to the >> compiler. >> They are useful for runtime instrumentation and static analysis. >> >> The infrastructure supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0, building >> out-of-tree modules and building in a separate directory. >> Cross-compilation >> is supported too but currently only the x86, arm and arm64 architectures >> enables plugins. >> >> This infrastructure was ported from grsecurity/PaX. It is a CII project >> supported by the Linux Foundation. >> >> Emese Revfy (6): >> Shared library support >> GCC plugin infrastructure >> The GCC plugin infrastructure supports the arm and arm64 architectures too >> Add Cyclomatic complexity plugin >> Documentations of the GCC plugin infrastructre >> Add sancov plugin > > > I've tested the v6 patches on arm, and partially on arm64. The arm64 > gcc has a bug in make install that doesn't install all necessary > headers to build plugins. I believe the patch will work once that > version gets out. It does, however, print a helpful message now > explaining the likely cause of the failure. > > Tested-by: David Brown <david.brown@xxxxxxxxxx> Awesome! Thanks for testing this. I still need to finish getting my arm64 environment built... Do you happen to know if there's already a gcc bug open for the make install problem? Masahiro and Michal, does this series look good to you? I'd really like to get this into -next for wider testing. Emese, were you thinking of doing the initify plugin next after this infrastructure lands? -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS & Brillo Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
