Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] compiler-clang: add build check for clang 10.0.1

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Mon Nov 02 2020 - 23:55:32 EST


On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 03:59:05PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> During Plumbers 2020, we voted to just support the latest release of
> Clang for now. Add a compile time check for this.
>
> We plan to remove workarounds for older versions now, which will break
> in subtle and not so subtle ways.
>
> Suggested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/9
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/941
> ---
> include/linux/compiler-clang.h | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
> index cee0c728d39a..230604e7f057 100644
> --- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
> @@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
> #error "Please don't include <linux/compiler-clang.h> directly, include <linux/compiler.h> instead."
> #endif
>
> +#define CLANG_VERSION (__clang_major__ * 10000 \
> + + __clang_minor__ * 100 \
> + + __clang_patchlevel__)
> +
> +#if CLANG_VERSION < 100001
> +# error Sorry, your version of Clang is too old - please use 10.0.1 or newer.
> +#endif


I'm trying to compile a BPF enabled test kernel for a live system and I
get this error even though I have much newer clang:

➜ ~ (master) ✔ clang --version
Ubuntu clang version 11.0.0-2
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

Tried to Google for troubleshooter tips but this patch is basically the
only hit I get :-)


> +
> /* Compiler specific definitions for Clang compiler */
>
> /* same as gcc, this was present in clang-2.6 so we can assume it works
> --
> 2.28.0.402.g5ffc5be6b7-goog
>

/Jarkko