Re: [PATCH] kbuild: tell sparse about the $ARCH

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On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 9:12 PM Luc Van Oostenryck
<luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sparse uses the same executable for all archs and uses flags
> like -m64, -mbig-endian or -D__arm__ for arch-specific parameters.
> But Sparse also uses value from the host machine used to build
> Sparse as default value for the target machine.
>
> This works, of course, well for native build but can create
> problems when cross-compiling, like defining both '__i386__'
> and '__arm__' when cross-compiling for arm on a x86-64 machine.
>
> Fix this by explicitely telling sparse the target architecture.
>
> Reported-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.


>  Makefile | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 6f54f2f95743..05a8906dde63 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -937,6 +937,9 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELR),y)
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux        += --pack-dyn-relocs=relr
>  endif
>
> +# make the checker run with the right architecture
> +CHECKFLAGS += --arch=$(ARCH)
> +
>  # insure the checker run with the right endianness
>  CHECKFLAGS += $(if $(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),-mbig-endian,-mlittle-endian)
>
> --
> 2.24.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada



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