[PATCH] riscv: vdso: fix build with llvm

Jisheng Zhang jszhang at kernel.org
Mon Oct 31 11:29:43 PDT 2022


Even after commit 89fd4a1df829 ("riscv: jump_label: mark arguments as
const to satisfy asm constraints"), building with CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
+ LLVM=1 can reproduce below build error:

  CC      arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o
In file included from <built-in>:4:
In file included from lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c:5:
In file included from include/vdso/datapage.h:17:
In file included from
include/vdso/processor.h:10:
In file included from
arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/processor.h:7:
In file included from
include/linux/jump_label.h:112:
arch/riscv/include/asm/jump_label.h:42:3: error:
invalid operand fo
r inline asm constraint 'i'
                "       .option push                            \n\t"
                ^
1 error generated.

I think the problem is when "-Os" is passed as CFLAGS, it's removed by
"CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os" which is
introduced in commit e05d57dcb8c7 ("riscv: Fixup __vdso_gettimeofday
broke dynamic ftrace"), thus no optimization at all for vgettimeofday.c
arm64 does remove "-Os" as well, but it forces "-O2" after removing
"-Os".

I compared the generated vgettimeofday.o with "-O2" and "-Os",
I think no big performance difference. So let's tell the kbuild not
to remove "-Os" rather than follow arm64 style.

vdso related performance can be improved a lot when building kernel with
CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE after this commit, ("-Os" VS no optimization)

Fixes: e05d57dcb8c7 ("riscv: Fixup __vdso_gettimeofday broke dynamic ftrace")
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang at kernel.org>
---
 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index f2e065671e4d..84ac0fe612e7 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ obj-y += vdso.o
 CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)
 
 # Disable -pg to prevent insert call site
-CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) -Os
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
 
 # Disable profiling and instrumentation for VDSO code
 GCOV_PROFILE := n
-- 
2.37.2




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