Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] arm64: vdso32: Address various issues

From: Will Deacon
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 05:07:46 EST


On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 06:48:00PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> On 07/10/2019 15:37, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> > On 07/10/2019 15:15, Will Deacon wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 02:54:29PM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> >>> On 07/10/2019 14:31, Will Deacon wrote:
> >>>> I've queued this up as fixes for 5.4, but I ended up making quite a few
> >>>> additional changes to address some other issues and minor inconsistencies
> >>>> I ran into. In particular, with my changes, you can now easily build the
> >>>> kernel with clang but the compat vDSO with gcc. The header files still need
> >>>> sorting out properly, but I think this is a decent starting point:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git/log/?h=for-next/fixes
> >>>>
> >>>> Please have a look.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for letting me know, I will have a look.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>> I see acked-by Catalin on the patches, did you post them in review somewhere? I
> >>> could not find them. Sorry
> >>
> >> I pushed them out to a temporary vdso branch on Friday and Catalin looked at
> >> that. If you'd like me to post them as well, please let me know, although
> >> I'm keen to get this stuff sorted out by -rc3 without disabling the compat
> >> vDSO altogether (i.e. [1]). In other words, if you're ok with my changes on
> >> top of yours then let's go for that, otherwise let's punt this to 5.5 and
> >> try to fix the header mess at the same time.
> >>
> >
> > No need to repost them. I just got confused by the fact that they got acked and
> > I could not find them anywhere, hence my question.
> >
> > I am keen to sort this thing as well, my personal preference is to not disable
> > compat vdso in 5.4.
> >
> > I will download your tree, have a look at it and let you know my thoughts.
> >
>
> I tested your patches and they look fine to me. I have just one request, in the
> commit message of patch were you rename COMPATCC to CC_COMPAT could you please
> add the make command with the update variable?
>
> $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- \
> CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT=arm-linux-gnueabihf- CC=clang \
> CC_COMPAT=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
>
> It took me a while to understand that the command in the commit message
> (c71e88c43796 "arm64: vdso32: Don't use KBUILD_CPPFLAGS unconditionally") was
> not working because of the renaming.
>
> Thanks!
>
> If it is not too late you can add my reviewed-by and tested-by ;)

Thanks, Vincenzo. I'd prefer not to rebase that branch, but I'll mention
your tags in the pull request so they may end up in the merge commit.

Will