Re: [PATCH] lib/Kconfig.debug: Add check for non-constant .{s,u}leb128 support to DWARF5

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 11:25 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When building with a RISC-V kernel with DWARF5 debug info using clang
> and the GNU assembler, several instances of the following error appear:
>
>   /tmp/vgettimeofday-48aa35.s:2963: Error: non-constant .uleb128 is not supported
>
> Dumping the .s file reveals these .uleb128 directives come from
> .debug_loc and .debug_ranges:
>
>   .Ldebug_loc0:
>           .byte   4                               # DW_LLE_offset_pair
>           .uleb128 .Lfunc_begin0-.Lfunc_begin0    #   starting offset
>           .uleb128 .Ltmp1-.Lfunc_begin0           #   ending offset
>           .byte   1                               # Loc expr size
>           .byte   90                              # DW_OP_reg10
>           .byte   0                               # DW_LLE_end_of_list
>
>   .Ldebug_ranges0:
>           .byte   4                               # DW_RLE_offset_pair
>           .uleb128 .Ltmp6-.Lfunc_begin0           #   starting offset
>           .uleb128 .Ltmp27-.Lfunc_begin0          #   ending offset
>           .byte   4                               # DW_RLE_offset_pair
>           .uleb128 .Ltmp28-.Lfunc_begin0          #   starting offset
>           .uleb128 .Ltmp30-.Lfunc_begin0          #   ending offset
>           .byte   0                               # DW_RLE_end_of_list
>
> There is an outstanding binutils issue to support a non-constant operand
> to .sleb128 and .uleb128 in GAS for RISC-V but there does not appear to
> be any movement on it, due to concerns over how it would work with
> linker relaxation.
>
> To avoid these build errors, prevent DWARF5 from being selected when
> using clang and an assembler that does not have support for these symbol
> deltas, which can be easily checked in Kconfig with as-instr plus the
> small test program from the dwz test suite from the binutils issue.
>
> Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27215
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1719
> Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/Kconfig.debug | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index d3e5f36bb01e..19de03ead2ed 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -231,6 +231,9 @@ config DEBUG_INFO
>           in the "Debug information" choice below, indicating that debug
>           information will be generated for build targets.
>
> +config AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128
> +       def_bool $(as-instr,.uleb128 .Lexpr_end4 - .Lexpr_start3\n.Lexpr_start3:\n.Lexpr_end4:)
> +
>  choice
>         prompt "Debug information"
>         depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> @@ -277,6 +280,10 @@ config DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5
>         bool "Generate DWARF Version 5 debuginfo"
>         select DEBUG_INFO
>         depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || (CC_IS_CLANG && (AS_IS_LLVM || (AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23502)))
> +       # Clang is known to generate .{s,u}leb128 with symbol deltas with
> +       # DWARF5, which some targets may not support.
> +       # https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27215
> +       depends on !CC_IS_CLANG || AS_HAS_NON_CONST_LEB128

Reraising my concern from
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1719#issuecomment-1258678969

We've put a fair amount of work into getting CC=clang LLVM_IAS=0 to
work for DWARF v5 (both on the GNU binutils side, and Kbuild), I'd
hate to see that effectively knee-capped because of an issue in GNU
binutils that is only relevant for one architecture.

I'd concede support for ARCH=riscv, but not for all other
architectures, which this effectively does.

>         help
>           Generate DWARF v5 debug info. Requires binutils 2.35.2, gcc 5.0+ (gcc
>           5.0+ accepts the -gdwarf-5 flag but only had partial support for some
>
> base-commit: f76349cf41451c5c42a99f18a9163377e4b364ff
> --
> 2.37.3
>
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers