Hi Arnaldo,
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 16:57:34 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Em Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 02:44:17PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf escreveu:
> > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:36:55PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Em Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 02:19:20PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf escreveu:
> > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:37:39AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > > > I.e. with the two patches I mentioned, that are equivalent to the last patch I
> > > > > sent to Stephen for testing, we would end up with HOSTARCH=powerpc and
> > > > > ARCH=x86, no?
>
> > > > Thanks for spelling it out, that helped a lot.
>
> > > Glad you liked it, I had to do it for my own sanity :-)
>
> > > And something that gave me mixed feelings was an e-mail from the kbuild
> > > test bot that noticed my perf/core changes and said that the build was
> > > broken for "make ARCH=x86_64", so I had to reinstate this part:
>
> > > ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
> > > ARCH := x86
> > > endif
>
> > > Because, as you say, 'make ARCH=x86' works :-\ I think it will not be
> > > needed with your patch, right? I'm checking your patch below right now,
>
> > Yeah, that shouldn't be needed with my patch. I think either would
> > work, but my patch is more of a permanent solution.
>
> Sure, I left it there because then we don't have bisection broke at that
> fix I made, i.e. 'make ARCH=x86_64' works at that point too.
>
> I applied your patch and will push it to Ingo, now we must cross our
> fingers so that Stephen doesn't come back to us once more telling it is
> still broken :o)
Unfortunately, this is what I get when I just build perf/core:
DESCEND objtool
CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o
LD /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool-in.o
Warning: objtool: x86 instruction decoder differs from kernel
LINK /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool
In file included from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h:10:0,
from /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/asm-generic/int-ll64.h:11,
from /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/asm-generic/types.h:6,
from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/types.h:4,
from /home/sfr/next/next/tools/include/linux/types.h:9,
from /home/sfr/next/next/include/uapi/linux/elf.h:4,
from /home/sfr/next/next/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso2c.c:66:
/home/sfr/next/next/tools/include/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h:13:2: error: #error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
#error Inconsistent word size. Check asm/bitsperlong.h
^
The be clear: this is a ppc64le hosted, x86_64 target cross build.
I than added the following patch, and the build finishes successfully.
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:35:40 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] x86: make the vdso2c compiler use the host architecture
headers
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index 253b72eaade6..25e88c030c47 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
$(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE
$(call if_changed,vdso)
-HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi -I$(srctree)/arch/x86/include/uapi
+HOST_EXTRACFLAGS += -I$(srctree)/tools/include -I$(srctree)/include/uapi -I$(srctree)/arch/$(SUBARCH)/include/uapi
hostprogs-y += vdso2c
quiet_cmd_vdso2c = VDSO2C $@
--
2.8.1
There may be a more correct way to do this ...
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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