This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tools/rtla: Fix Makefile compiler options for clang to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tools-rtla-fix-makefile-compiler-options-for-clang.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bc4cbc9d260ba8358ca63662919f4bb223cb603b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 12:05:29 +0100 Subject: tools/rtla: Fix Makefile compiler options for clang From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> commit bc4cbc9d260ba8358ca63662919f4bb223cb603b upstream. The following errors are showing up when compiling rtla with clang: $ make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 [...] clang -O -g -DVERSION=\"6.8.0-rc1\" -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized $(pkg-config --cflags libtracefs) -c -o src/utils.o src/utils.c clang: warning: optimization flag '-ffat-lto-objects' is not supported [-Wignored-optimization-argument] warning: unknown warning option '-Wno-maybe-uninitialized'; did you mean '-Wno-uninitialized'? [-Wunknown-warning-option] 1 warning generated. clang -o rtla -ggdb src/osnoise.o src/osnoise_hist.o src/osnoise_top.o src/rtla.o src/timerlat_aa.o src/timerlat.o src/timerlat_hist.o src/timerlat_top.o src/timerlat_u.o src/trace.o src/utils.o $(pkg-config --libs libtracefs) src/osnoise.o: file not recognized: file format not recognized clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) make: *** [Makefile:110: rtla] Error 1 Solve these issues by: - removing -ffat-lto-objects and -Wno-maybe-uninitialized if using clang - informing the linker about -flto=auto Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/567ac1b94effc228ce9a0225b9df7232a9b35b55.1707217097.git.bristot@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 1a7b22ab15eb ("tools/rtla: Build with EXTRA_{C,LD}FLAGS") Suggested-by: Donald Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile @@ -28,10 +28,15 @@ FOPTS := -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -f -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection WOPTS := -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS -Wno-maybe-uninitialized +ifeq ($(CC),clang) + FOPTS := $(filter-out -ffat-lto-objects, $(FOPTS)) + WOPTS := $(filter-out -Wno-maybe-uninitialized, $(WOPTS)) +endif + TRACEFS_HEADERS := $$($(PKG_CONFIG) --cflags libtracefs) CFLAGS := -O -g -DVERSION=\"$(VERSION)\" $(FOPTS) $(MOPTS) $(WOPTS) $(TRACEFS_HEADERS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -LDFLAGS := -ggdb $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) +LDFLAGS := -flto=auto -ggdb $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS) LIBS := $$($(PKG_CONFIG) --libs libtracefs) SRC := $(wildcard src/*.c) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bristot@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.6/tools-rtla-replace-setting-prio-with-nice-for-sched_other.patch queue-6.6/tools-rv-fix-makefile-compiler-options-for-clang.patch queue-6.6/tools-rtla-fix-uninitialized-bucket-data-bucket_size-warning.patch queue-6.6/tools-rtla-exit-with-exit_success-when-help-is-invoked.patch queue-6.6/tools-rtla-fix-clang-warning-about-mount_point-var-size.patch queue-6.6/tools-rv-fix-curr_reactor-uninitialized-variable.patch queue-6.6/tools-rtla-fix-makefile-compiler-options-for-clang.patch queue-6.6/tracing-timerlat-move-hrtimer_init-to-timerlat_fd-open.patch queue-6.6/tools-rtla-remove-unused-sched_getattr-function.patch