[PATCH v3 10/13] drivers/firmware/scmi: disable ftrace for Clang Thumb2 builds

Ard Biesheuvel ardb at kernel.org
Thu Feb 3 00:22:01 PST 2022


The SMC calling convention designates R0-R7 as input registers in
AArch32 mode, and this conflicts with the compiler's use of R7 as a
frame pointer when building in Thumb2 mode. Generally, we don't enable
the frame pointer, and GCC happily enables the -pg profiling hooks
without them. However, Clang refuses, and errors out with the message
below:

drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/smc.c:152:2: error: write to reserved register 'R7'
        arm_smccc_1_1_invoke(scmi_info->func_id, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, &res);
        ^
include/linux/arm-smccc.h:550:4: note: expanded from macro 'arm_smccc_1_1_invoke'
                        arm_smccc_1_1_smc(__VA_ARGS__);                 \
                        ^
Let's just disable ftrace for the compilation unit when building this
configuration.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla at arm.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile
index 1dcf123d64ab..52b9078bfe96 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/Makefile
@@ -11,3 +11,10 @@ scmi-module-objs := $(scmi-bus-y) $(scmi-driver-y) $(scmi-protocols-y) \
 		    $(scmi-transport-y)
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_SCMI_PROTOCOL) += scmi-module.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM_SCMI_POWER_DOMAIN) += scmi_pm_domain.o
+
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL)$(CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG),yy)
+# The use of R7 in the SMCCC conflicts with the compiler's use of R7 as a frame
+# pointer in Thumb2 mode, which is forcibly enabled by Clang when profiling
+# hooks are inserted via the -pg switch.
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_smc.o += $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
+endif
-- 
2.30.2




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