On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:51:04 +0100 Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nathan reported that when building with GNU as and a version of clang > that defaults to DWARF5: > > $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- \ > LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=0 O=build \ > mrproper allmodconfig mm/kfence/kfence_test.o > /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s: Assembler messages: > /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14627: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported > /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14628: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported > /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14632: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported > /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14633: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported > /tmp/kfence_test-08a0a0.s:14639: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported > ... > > This is because `-g` defaults to the compiler debug info default. If the > assembler does not support some of the directives used, the above errors > occur. To fix, remove the explicit passing of `-g`. > > All these tests want is that stack traces print valid function names, > and debug info is not required for that. I currently cannot recall why I > added the explicit `-g`. Does this need to be backported into earlier kernels? If so, we'd need to do it as two patches, each with the relevant Fixes:, which appear to be a146fed56f8 and bc8fbc5f30.
