From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 31f48f16264bc70962fb3e7ec62da64d0a2ba04a ] When clang's -Qunused-arguments is dropped from KBUILD_CPPFLAGS, it points out that KBUILD_AFLAGS contains a linker flag, which will be unused: clang: error: -Wl,-a32: 'linker' input unused [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument] This was likely supposed to be '-Wa,-a$(BITS)'. However, this change is unnecessary, as all supported versions of clang and gcc will pass '-a64' or '-a32' to GNU as based on the value of '-m'; the behavior of the latest stable release of the oldest supported major version of each compiler is shown below and each compiler's latest release exhibits the same behavior (GCC 12.2.0 and Clang 15.0.6). $ powerpc64-linux-gcc --version | head -1 powerpc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 5.5.0 $ powerpc64-linux-gcc -m64 -### -x assembler-with-cpp -c -o /dev/null /dev/null &| grep 'as ' .../as -a64 -mppc64 -many -mbig -o /dev/null /tmp/cctwuBzZ.s $ powerpc64-linux-gcc -m32 -### -x assembler-with-cpp -c -o /dev/null /dev/null &| grep 'as ' .../as -a32 -mppc -many -mbig -o /dev/null /tmp/ccaZP4mF.sg $ clang --version | head -1 Ubuntu clang version 11.1.0-++20211011094159+1fdec59bffc1-1~exp1~20211011214622.5 $ clang --target=powerpc64-linux-gnu -fno-integrated-as -m64 -### \ -x assembler-with-cpp -c -o /dev/null /dev/null &| grep gnu-as "/usr/bin/powerpc64-linux-gnu-as" "-a64" "-mppc64" "-many" "-o" "/dev/null" "/tmp/null-80267c.s" $ clang --target=powerpc64-linux-gnu -fno-integrated-as -m64 -### \ -x assembler-with-cpp -c -o /dev/null /dev/null &| grep gnu-as "/usr/bin/powerpc64-linux-gnu-as" "-a32" "-mppc" "-many" "-o" "/dev/null" "/tmp/null-ab8f8d.s" Remove this flag altogether to avoid future issues. Fixes: 1421dc6d4829 ("powerpc/kbuild: Use flags variables rather than overriding LD/CC/AS") Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index 6122541412961..a3f66ade09b32 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -mlittle-endian ifeq ($(HAS_BIARCH),y) KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS) -KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m$(BITS) -Wl,-a$(BITS) +KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m$(BITS) KBUILD_LDFLAGS += -m elf$(BITS)$(LDEMULATION) endif -- 2.39.2