Staring v4.18, Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities, and hides CONFIG
options your compiler does not support. This works well if you configure
and build the kernel on the same host machine.
It is inconvenient if you prepare the .config that is carried to a
different build environment (typically this happens when you package
the kernel for distros) because using a different compiler potentially
produces different CONFIG options than the real build environment.
So, you probably want to make as many options visible as possible.
In other words, you need to create a super-set of CONFIG options that
cover any build environment. If some of the CONFIG options turned out
to be unsupported on the build machine, they are automatically disabled
by the nature of Kconfig.
However, it is not feasible to get a full-featured compiler for every
arch.
This issue was discussed here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/9/620
Other than distros, savedefconfig is also a problem. Some arch subsytems
periodically resync defconfig files. If you use a less-capable compiler
for savedefconfig, options that do not meet 'depends on $(cc-option,...)'
will be forcibly disabled. So, defconfig && savedefconfig may silently
change the behavior.
This commit adds a set of dummy toolchains that pretend to support any
feature.
Most of compiler features are tested by cc-option, which simply checks
the exit code of $(CC). The dummy tools are just a shell script that
exits with 0 in most cases. So, $(cc-option, ...) is evaluated as 'y'.
There are more complicated checks such as:
scripts/gcc-x86_{32,64}-has-stack-protector.sh
scripts/gcc-plugin.sh
scripts/tools-support-relr.sh
I tried my best to implement the dummy scripts to pass all checks.
From the top directory of the source tree, you can do:
$ make CROSS_COMPILE=scripts/dummy-tools/ oldconfig
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
---
scripts/dummy-tools/gcc | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
scripts/dummy-tools/ld | 4 ++
scripts/dummy-tools/nm | 4 ++
scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy | 4 ++
4 files changed, 103 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/gcc
create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/ld
create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/nm
create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy
diff --git a/scripts/dummy-tools/gcc b/scripts/dummy-tools/gcc
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..33487e99d83e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dummy-tools/gcc
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+#
+# Staring v4.18, Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities, and hides CONFIG
+# options your compiler does not support. This works well if you configure and
+# build the kernel on the same host machine.
+#
+# It is inconvenient if you prepare the .config that is carried to a different
+# build environment (typically this happens when you package the kernel for
+# distros) because using a different compiler potentially produces different
+# CONFIG options than the real build environment. So, you probably want to make
+# as many options visible as possible. In other words, you need to create a
+# super-set of CONFIG options that cover any build environment. If some of the
+# CONFIG options turned out to be unsupported on the build machine, they are
+# automatically disabled by the nature of Kconfig.
+#
+# However, it is not feasible to get a full-featured compiler for every arch.
+# Hence these dummy toolchains to make all compiler tests pass.
+#
+# Usage:
+#
+# From the top directory of the source tree, run
+#
+# $ make CROSS_COMPILE=scripts/dummy-tools/ oldconfig
+#
+# Most of compiler features are tested by cc-option, which simply checks the
+# exit code of $(CC). This script does nothing and just exits with 0 in most
+# cases. So, $(cc-option, ...) is evaluated as 'y'.
+#
+# This scripts caters to more checks; handle --version and pre-process __GNUC__
+# etc. to pretend to be GCC, and also do right things to satisfy some scripts.
+
+# Check if the first parameter appears in the rest. Succeeds if found.
+# This helper is useful if a particular option was passed to this script.
+# Typically used like this:
+# arg_contain <word-you-are-searching-for> "$@"
+arg_contain ()
+{
+ search="$1"
+ shift
+
+ while [ $# -gt 0 ]
+ do
+ if [ "$search" = "$1" ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ shift
+ done
+
+ return 1
+}
+
+# To set CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
+if arg_contain --version "$@"; then
+ echo "gcc (scripts/dummy-tools/gcc)"
+ exit 0
+fi
+
+if arg_contain -E "$@"; then
+ # For scripts/gcc-version.sh; This emulates GCC 20.0.0
+ if arg_contain - "$@"; then
+ sed 's/^__GNUC__$/20/; s/^__GNUC_MINOR__$/0/; s/^__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__$/0/'
+ exit 0
+ else
+ echo "no input files" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+fi
+
+if arg_contain -S "$@"; then
+ # For scripts/gcc-x86-*-has-stack-protector.sh
+ if arg_contain -fstack-protector "$@"; then
+ echo "%gs"
+ exit 0
+ fi
+fi
+
+# For scripts/gcc-plugin.sh
+if arg_contain -print-file-name=plugin "$@"; then
+ plugin_dir=$(mktemp -d)
+
+ sed -n 's/.*#include "\(.*\)"/\1/p' $(dirname $0)/../gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h |
+ while read header
+ do
+ mkdir -p $plugin_dir/include/$(dirname $header)
+ touch $plugin_dir/include/$header
+ done
+
+ echo $plugin_dir
+ exit 0
+fi
diff --git a/scripts/dummy-tools/ld b/scripts/dummy-tools/ld
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..3bc56ae4cc15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dummy-tools/ld
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+# Dummy script that always succeeds
diff --git a/scripts/dummy-tools/nm b/scripts/dummy-tools/nm
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..3bc56ae4cc15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dummy-tools/nm
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+# Dummy script that always succeeds
diff --git a/scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy b/scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..3bc56ae4cc15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+# Dummy script that always succeeds
--
2.17.1
Hi Masahiro,
On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 18:02:24 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]> wrote:
> Staring v4.18, Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities, and hides CONFIG
> options your compiler does not support. This works well if you configure
> and build the kernel on the same host machine.
>
> It is inconvenient if you prepare the .config that is carried to a
> different build environment (typically this happens when you package
> the kernel for distros) because using a different compiler potentially
> produces different CONFIG options than the real build environment.
> So, you probably want to make as many options visible as possible.
> In other words, you need to create a super-set of CONFIG options that
> cover any build environment. If some of the CONFIG options turned out
> to be unsupported on the build machine, they are automatically disabled
> by the nature of Kconfig.
>
> However, it is not feasible to get a full-featured compiler for every
> arch.
>
> This issue was discussed here:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/9/620
>
> Other than distros, savedefconfig is also a problem. Some arch subsytems
> periodically resync defconfig files. If you use a less-capable compiler
> for savedefconfig, options that do not meet 'depends on $(cc-option,...)'
> will be forcibly disabled. So, defconfig && savedefconfig may silently
> change the behavior.
>
> This commit adds a set of dummy toolchains that pretend to support any
> feature.
>
> Most of compiler features are tested by cc-option, which simply checks
> the exit code of $(CC). The dummy tools are just a shell script that
> exits with 0 in most cases. So, $(cc-option, ...) is evaluated as 'y'.
>
> There are more complicated checks such as:
>
> scripts/gcc-x86_{32,64}-has-stack-protector.sh
> scripts/gcc-plugin.sh
> scripts/tools-support-relr.sh
>
> I tried my best to implement the dummy scripts to pass all checks.
>
> From the top directory of the source tree, you can do:
>
> $ make CROSS_COMPILE=scripts/dummy-tools/ oldconfig
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
look good to me
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <[email protected]>
Thanks a lot
Philipp
On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 06:02:24PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Staring v4.18, Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities, and hides CONFIG
> options your compiler does not support. This works well if you configure
> and build the kernel on the same host machine.
>
> It is inconvenient if you prepare the .config that is carried to a
> different build environment (typically this happens when you package
> the kernel for distros) because using a different compiler potentially
> produces different CONFIG options than the real build environment.
> So, you probably want to make as many options visible as possible.
> In other words, you need to create a super-set of CONFIG options that
> cover any build environment. If some of the CONFIG options turned out
> to be unsupported on the build machine, they are automatically disabled
> by the nature of Kconfig.
>
> However, it is not feasible to get a full-featured compiler for every
> arch.
>
> This issue was discussed here:
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/9/620
>
> Other than distros, savedefconfig is also a problem. Some arch subsytems
> periodically resync defconfig files. If you use a less-capable compiler
> for savedefconfig, options that do not meet 'depends on $(cc-option,...)'
> will be forcibly disabled. So, defconfig && savedefconfig may silently
> change the behavior.
>
> This commit adds a set of dummy toolchains that pretend to support any
> feature.
>
> Most of compiler features are tested by cc-option, which simply checks
> the exit code of $(CC). The dummy tools are just a shell script that
> exits with 0 in most cases. So, $(cc-option, ...) is evaluated as 'y'.
>
> There are more complicated checks such as:
>
> scripts/gcc-x86_{32,64}-has-stack-protector.sh
> scripts/gcc-plugin.sh
> scripts/tools-support-relr.sh
>
> I tried my best to implement the dummy scripts to pass all checks.
>
> From the top directory of the source tree, you can do:
>
> $ make CROSS_COMPILE=scripts/dummy-tools/ oldconfig
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> scripts/dummy-tools/gcc | 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> scripts/dummy-tools/ld | 4 ++
> scripts/dummy-tools/nm | 4 ++
> scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy | 4 ++
> 4 files changed, 103 insertions(+)
> create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/gcc
> create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/ld
> create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/nm
> create mode 100755 scripts/dummy-tools/objcopy
>
<snip>
> diff --git a/scripts/dummy-tools/ld b/scripts/dummy-tools/ld
> new file mode 100755
> index 000000000000..3bc56ae4cc15
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/dummy-tools/ld
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> +
> +# Dummy script that always succeeds
It looks like scripts/Kbuild.include expects "$(LD) --version" to return
something. If it doesn't "ld-ifversion" stops working.
Other than that it seems to work as advertised. Thanks!
- Jeremy
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 3:06 AM Jeremy Cline <[email protected]> wrote:
> > diff --git a/scripts/dummy-tools/ld b/scripts/dummy-tools/ld
> > new file mode 100755
> > index 000000000000..3bc56ae4cc15
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/scripts/dummy-tools/ld
> > @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> > +#!/bin/sh
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > +
> > +# Dummy script that always succeeds
>
> It looks like scripts/Kbuild.include expects "$(LD) --version" to return
> something. If it doesn't "ld-ifversion" stops working.
Actually, scripts/Kbuild.include is not used in the Kconfig stage.
So, scripts/dummy-tools/ld does not need to handle --version or -v,
but we may do that in the future.
I will support it in v2.
> Other than that it seems to work as advertised. Thanks!
>
> - Jeremy
>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada