Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/vdso64: link vdso64 with linker

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:14:05 +1000

Nick Desaulniers <[email-masked]> writes:
> Rather than invoke the compiler as the driver, use the linker. That way
> we can check --orphan-handling=warn support correctly, as cc-ldoption
> was removed in
> commit 055efab3120b ("kbuild: drop support for cc-ldoption").

Ouch.

Seems make is quite happy to $(call deadbeef, ...) and not print a
warning, which I guess is probably a feature.

> Painstakingly compared the output between `objdump -a` before and after
> this change. Now function symbols have the correct type of FUNC rather
> than NONE, and the entry is slightly different (which doesn't matter for
> the vdso). Binary size is the same.
>
> Fixes: commit f2af201002a8 ("powerpc/build: vdso linker warning for orphan sections")

I think I'll just revert that for v5.9 ?

cheers

> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email-masked]/
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h         | 17 ++---------------
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile     |  8 ++++++--
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S |  1 -
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h
> index 2ff884853f97..11b2ecf49f79 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h
> @@ -24,19 +24,7 @@ int vdso_getcpu_init(void);
>  
>  #else /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>  
> -#ifdef __VDSO64__
> -#define V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(name)		\
> -	.globl name;			\
> -	name:				\
> -
> -#define V_FUNCTION_END(name)		\
> -	.size name,.-name;
> -
> -#define V_LOCAL_FUNC(name) (name)
> -#endif /* __VDSO64__ */
> -
> -#ifdef __VDSO32__
> -
> +#if defined(__VDSO32__) || defined (__VDSO64__)
>  #define V_FUNCTION_BEGIN(name)		\
>  	.globl name;			\
>  	.type name,@function; 		\
> @@ -46,8 +34,7 @@ int vdso_getcpu_init(void);
>  	.size name,.-name;
>  
>  #define V_LOCAL_FUNC(name) (name)
> -
> -#endif /* __VDSO32__ */
> +#endif /* __VDSO{32|64}__ */
>  
>  #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
>  
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile
> index 38c317f25141..7ea3ce537d0a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile
> @@ -32,9 +32,13 @@ $(obj)/%.so: OBJCOPYFLAGS := -S
>  $(obj)/%.so: $(obj)/%.so.dbg FORCE
>  	$(call if_changed,objcopy)
>  
> +ldflags-y := -shared -soname linux-vdso64.so.1 \
> +	$(call ld-option, --eh-frame-hdr) \
> +	$(call ld-option, --orphan-handling=warn) -T
> +
>  # actual build commands
> -quiet_cmd_vdso64ld = VDSO64L $@
> -      cmd_vdso64ld = $(CC) $(c_flags) -o $@ -Wl,-T$(filter %.lds,$^) $(filter %.o,$^) $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--orphan-handling=warn)
> +quiet_cmd_vdso64ld = LD      $@
> +      cmd_vdso64ld = $(cmd_ld)
>  
>  # install commands for the unstripped file
>  quiet_cmd_vdso_install = INSTALL $@
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
> index 4e3a8d4ee614..58c33b704b6a 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S
> @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-powerpcle", "elf64-powerpcle", "elf64-powerpcle")
>  OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf64-powerpc", "elf64-powerpc", "elf64-powerpc")
>  #endif
>  OUTPUT_ARCH(powerpc:common64)
> -ENTRY(_start)
>  
>  SECTIONS
>  {
> -- 
> 2.28.0.402.g5ffc5be6b7-goog