[PATCH] arm: pass endianness info to sparse
Luc Van Oostenryck
luc.vanoostenryck at gmail.com
Sat Jun 24 08:38:42 PDT 2017
ARM depends on the macros '__ARMEL__' & '__ARMEB__' being defined
or not to correctly select or define endian-specific macros,
structures or pieces of code.
These macros are predefined by the compiler but sparse knows
nothing about them and thus may pre-process files differently
from what gcc would.
Fix this by passing '-D__ARMEL__' or '-D__ARMEB__' to sparse,
depending of the endianness of the kernel, like defined by GCC.
Note: In most case it won't change anything since most ARMs use
little-endian (but an allyesconfig would use big-endian!).
CC: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
CC: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck at gmail.com>
---
arch/arm/Makefile | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
index 65f4e2a4e..0fca46d7f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ endif
ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN),y)
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -mbig-endian
+CHECKFLAGS += -D__ARMEB__
AS += -EB
LD += -EB
else
KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -mlittle-endian
+CHECKFLAGS += -D__ARMEL__
AS += -EL
LD += -EL
endif
--
2.13.0
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