From: Nathan_Lynch@mentor•com (Nathan Lynch)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 0/9] ARM: VDSO
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:00:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53AD9517.4060400@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140627085125.GA7088@hal>
On 06/27/2014 03:51 AM, Jan Glauber wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:11:49PM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote:
>> Provide fast userspace implementations of gettimeofday and
>> clock_gettime on systems that implement the generic timers extension
>> defined in ARMv7. This follows the example of arm64 in conception but
>> significantly differs in some aspects of the implementation (C vs
>> assembly, mainly).
>
> Hi Nathan,
>
> applying your patches I get the following compile error under Ubuntu 12.04:
>
> CC arch/arm/kernel/vdso.o
> LDS arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds
> CC arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o
> AS arch/arm/kernel/vdso/datapage.o
> VDSOL arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.raw
> HOSTCC arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge
> arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c: In function ?main?:
> arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c:152:16: error: ?EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD? undeclared (first use in this function)
> arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c:152:16: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c:156:34: error: ?EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT? undeclared (first use in this function)
> make[2]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/vdso] Error 2
> make: *** [arch/arm/kernel] Error 2
>
> Looks like the libc dev is too old (EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_* not in /usr/include/elf.h).
> On a more recent Ubuntu it compiles fine. Not sure how to solve this, maybe disable
> vdso if the libc is too old?
We should just define some of the needed ELF constants in the tool if
the host <elf.h> lacks them. EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD/SOFT were added in
2012, EF_ARM_EABI_VER5 in 2009... everything else the tool uses has been
there for twelve years or more.
Thanks for the report -- please try the below?
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c
b/arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c
index 823b84d142bc..b586ef699fb8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/vdso/vdsomunge.c
@@ -67,6 +67,21 @@
#define HOST_ORDER ELFDATA2MSB
#endif
+/* Some of the ELF constants we'd like to use were added to <elf.h>
+ * relatively recently.
+ */
+#ifndef EF_ARM_EABI_VER5
+#define EF_ARM_EABI_VER5 0x05000000
+#endif
+
+#ifndef EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT
+#define EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT 0x200
+#endif
+
+#ifndef EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD
+#define EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD 0x400
+#endif
+
static const char *outfile;
static void cleanup(void)
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-23 3:11 [PATCH v7 0/9] ARM: VDSO Nathan Lynch
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 1/9] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: change clocksource name if CP15 unavailable Nathan Lynch
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 2/9] clocksource: arm_arch_timer: enable counter access for 32-bit ARM Nathan Lynch
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 3/9] ARM: arch_timer: remove unused functions Nathan Lynch
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 4/9] arm64: " Nathan Lynch
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 5/9] ARM: place sigpage at a random offset above stack Nathan Lynch
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 6/9] ARM: miscellaneous vdso infrastructure, preparation Nathan Lynch
2014-06-30 10:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-30 12:27 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-30 13:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 7/9] ARM: add vdso user-space code Nathan Lynch
2014-06-28 9:53 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-28 10:03 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-30 15:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-28 15:19 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-28 15:26 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-28 16:13 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-28 18:12 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-28 19:45 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-28 20:11 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-28 21:35 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-29 8:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-29 15:48 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-29 16:07 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-29 23:04 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-30 21:33 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 15:59 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 16:50 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-30 21:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01 9:00 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-01 13:34 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-07-01 14:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01 13:28 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-07-01 14:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 8/9] ARM: vdso initialization, mapping, and synchronization Nathan Lynch
2014-06-30 21:37 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01 9:03 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:11 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-07-01 14:15 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01 17:27 ` Christopher Covington
2014-07-02 14:40 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 15:54 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-02 16:18 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-07-02 16:27 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 16:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-02 17:24 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-02 18:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-02 18:54 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-22 0:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-22 8:13 ` Will Deacon
2014-07-01 14:01 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-07-01 14:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01 14:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-23 3:11 ` [PATCH v7 9/9] ARM: add CONFIG_VDSO Kconfig and Makefile bits Nathan Lynch
2014-06-27 8:51 ` [PATCH v7 0/9] ARM: VDSO Jan Glauber
2014-06-27 8:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-27 9:41 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-06-27 9:46 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-27 17:01 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-28 9:42 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-28 9:55 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-28 14:49 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-30 7:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-30 7:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-06-30 18:27 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-27 16:00 ` Nathan Lynch [this message]
2014-06-30 16:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 8:12 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-01 16:34 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-07-01 20:08 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-07-01 22:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-06-30 14:40 ` Will Deacon
2014-06-30 15:42 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-06-30 21:56 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01 9:04 ` Will Deacon
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