[PATCH 4.9 002/130] ARC: Explicitly add -mmedium-calls to CFLAGS

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Aug 23 2018 - 04:01:40 EST


4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 74c11e300c103af47db5b658fdcf28002421e250 ]

GCC built for arc*-*-linux has "-mmedium-calls" implicitly enabled by default
thus we don't see any problems during Linux kernel compilation.
----------------------------->8------------------------
arc-linux-gcc -mcpu=arc700 -Q --help=target | grep calls
-mlong-calls [disabled]
-mmedium-calls [enabled]
----------------------------->8------------------------

But if we try to use so-called Elf32 toolchain with GCC configured for
arc*-*-elf* then we'd see the following failure:
----------------------------->8------------------------
init/do_mounts.o: In function 'init_rootfs':
do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x108): relocation truncated to fit: R_ARC_S21W_PCREL
against symbol 'unregister_filesystem' defined in .text section in fs/filesystems.o

arc-elf32-ld: final link failed: Symbol needs debug section which does not exist
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
----------------------------->8------------------------

That happens because neither "-mmedium-calls" nor "-mlong-calls" are enabled in
Elf32 GCC:
----------------------------->8------------------------
arc-elf32-gcc -mcpu=arc700 -Q --help=target | grep calls
-mlong-calls [disabled]
-mmedium-calls [disabled]
----------------------------->8------------------------

Now to make it possible to use Elf32 toolchain for building Linux kernel
we're explicitly add "-mmedium-calls" to CFLAGS.

And since we add "-mmedium-calls" to the global CFLAGS there's no point in
having per-file copies thus removing them.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arc/Makefile | 15 +--------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/arc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arc/Makefile
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ endif

KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := nsim_700_defconfig

-cflags-y += -fno-common -pipe -fno-builtin -D__linux__
+cflags-y += -fno-common -pipe -fno-builtin -mmedium-calls -D__linux__
cflags-$(CONFIG_ISA_ARCOMPACT) += -mA7
cflags-$(CONFIG_ISA_ARCV2) += -mcpu=archs

@@ -141,16 +141,3 @@ dtbs: scripts

archclean:
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(clean)=$(boot)
-
-# Hacks to enable final link due to absence of link-time branch relexation
-# and gcc choosing optimal(shorter) branches at -O3
-#
-# vineetg Feb 2010: -mlong-calls switched off for overall kernel build
-# However lib/decompress_inflate.o (.init.text) calls
-# zlib_inflate_workspacesize (.text) causing relocation errors.
-# Thus forcing all exten calls in this file to be long calls
-export CFLAGS_decompress_inflate.o = -mmedium-calls
-export CFLAGS_initramfs.o = -mmedium-calls
-ifdef CONFIG_SMP
-export CFLAGS_core.o = -mmedium-calls
-endif