On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 12:39:17PM +0000, LEROY Christophe wrote:
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> Le 02/09/2024 à 03:20, Jason A. Donenfeld a écrit :
> > On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 08:43:10PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> >>>> How would this fit in the logic where IIUC you just remove '_64' from
> >>>> 'x86_64' to get 'x86'
> >>>
> >>> Huh? That's not what tools/scripts/Makefile.arch does.
> >>
> >> Hum ... yes sorry I looked at it too quickly and mixed things up with
> >> the other patch.
> >>
> >> Nevertheless, if I understand well what tools/scripts/Makefile.arch does
> >> on an x86_64 for instance:
> >>
> >> uname -m returns x86_64
> >> HOSTARCH = x86 (sed -e s/x86_64/x86)
> >> ARCH = x86
> >> SRCARCH = x86
> >>
> >> If you build with make ARCH=x86_64,
> >> SRCARCH = x86
> >>
> >> So I still can't see how you can use that to know if it is a x86_64 or not.
> >
> > By the use of CONFIG_X86_32, which is also used elsewhere in that
> > samme makefile for something else (so I assume it's wired up in the
> > context where it counts, and if not, that's a bug that affects both
> > spots and should be fixed)..
>
> I looks like it is a left-over from the time vDSO selftests were in
> Documentation/vDSO and were likely built with kernel config.
>
> CONFIG_X86_32 was brought into tools/testing/selftests/vDSO by commit
> f9b6b0ef6034 ("selftests: move vDSO tests from Documentation/vDSO") and
> was meant to pass -lgcc_s when building vdso_standalone_test_x86 for
> i386, but obviously it doesn't work:
>
> $ make ARCH=i386 V=1
> gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE= vdso_test_gettimeofday.c
> parse_vdso.c -o
> /home/chleroy/linux-powerpc/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_gettimeofday
> gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE= vdso_test_getcpu.c parse_vdso.c -o
> /home/chleroy/linux-powerpc/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_getcpu
> gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE= vdso_test_abi.c parse_vdso.c -o
> /home/chleroy/linux-powerpc/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_abi
> gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE= vdso_test_clock_getres.c -o
> /home/chleroy/linux-powerpc/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_clock_getres
> gcc -std=gnu99 -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE= -ldl vdso_test_correctness.c -o
> /home/chleroy/linux-powerpc/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_test_correctness
>
> In another place in selftests (tools/testing/selftests/ipc/), they
> manually add it:
>
> ifeq ($(ARCH),i386)
> ARCH := x86
> CFLAGS := -DCONFIG_X86_32 -D__i386__
> endif
> ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
> ARCH := x86
> CFLAGS := -DCONFIG_X86_64 -D__x86_64__
> endif
>
>
> So I think this is a confirmation that CONFIG_X86_32 doesn't exist in
> selftests.
Interesting... Seems like both sites, then, should be fixed somehow...
