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Nathan Chancellor 45bd895180 arm64: Improve HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS selection for clang 
Will and Anders reported that using just 'CC=clang' with CONFIG_FTRACE=y
and CONFIG_STACK_TRACER=y would result in an error while linking:

  aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: .init.data has both ordered [`__patchable_function_entries' in init/main.o] and unordered [`.meminit.data' in mm/sparse.o] sections
  aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: bad value

This error was exposed by commit f12b034afe ("scripts/Makefile.clang:
default to LLVM_IAS=1") in combination with binutils older than 2.36.

When '-fpatchable-function-entry' was implemented in LLVM, two code
paths were added for adding the section attributes, one for the
integrated assembler and another for GNU as, due to binutils
deficiencies at the time. If the integrated assembler was used,
attributes that GNU ld < 2.36 could not handle were added, presumably
with the assumption that use of the integrated assembler meant the whole
LLVM stack was being used, namely ld.lld.

Prior to the kernel change previously mentioned, that assumption was
valid, as there were three commonly used combinations of tools for
compiling, assembling, and linking respectively:

$ make CC=clang (clang, GNU as, GNU ld)
$ make LLVM=1 (clang, GNU as, ld.lld)
$ make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 (clang, integrated assembler, ld.lld)

After the default switch of the integrated assembler, the second and
third commands become equivalent and the first command means "clang,
integrated assembler, and GNU ld", which was not a combination that was
considered when the aforementioned LLVM change was implemented.

It is not possible to go back and fix LLVM, as this change was
implemented in the 10.x series, which is no longer supported. To
workaround this on the kernel side, split out the selection of
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS to two separate configurations, one for
GCC and one for clang.

The GCC config inherits the '-fpatchable-function-entry' check. The
Clang config does not it, as '-fpatchable-function-entry' is always
available for LLVM 11.0.0 and newer, which is the supported range of
versions for the kernel.

The Clang config makes sure that the user is using GNU as or the
integrated assembler with ld.lld or GNU ld 2.36 or newer, which will
avoid the error above.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1507
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/788
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/YlCA5PoIjF6nhwYj@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26256
Link: 7fa5290d5b
Link: 853a264916
Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220413181420.3522187-1-nathan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
 		2022-04-14 10:52:33 +01:00
Documentation Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
arch arm64: Improve HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS selection for clang 2022-04-14 10:52:33 +01:00
block for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
drivers arm_pmu: Validate single/group leader events 2022-04-13 11:48:45 +01:00
fs Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
include tlb: hugetlb: Add more sizes to tlb_remove_huge_tlb_entry 2022-04-06 12:41:48 +01:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
ipc fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb() 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
kernel Updates to Tracing: 2022-04-03 12:26:01 -07:00
lib for-5.18/block-2022-04-01 2022-04-01 16:20:00 -07:00
mm Filesystem/VFS changes for 5.18, part two 2022-04-01 13:50:50 -07:00
net Networking fixes for 5.18-rc1 and rethook patches. 2022-03-31 11:23:31 -07:00
samples dma-mapping updates for Linux 5.18 2022-03-29 08:50:14 -07:00
scripts modpost: restore the warning message for missing symbol versions 2022-04-03 03:11:51 +09:00
security hardening updates for v5.18-rc1-fix1 2022-03-31 11:43:01 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.18-rc1 2022-04-01 10:32:46 -07:00
tools A set of x86 fixes and updates: 2022-04-03 12:15:47 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Remove dirty handling from gfn_to_pfn_cache completely 2022-04-02 05:34:41 -04:00
.clang-format genirq/msi: Make interrupt allocation less convoluted 2021-12-16 22:22:20 +01:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Kirill's email 2022-04-01 11:46:09 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS chrome platform changes for 5.18 2022-04-02 10:44:18 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc1 2022-04-03 14:08:21 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.