[PATCH 1/2] kbuild: Add -Wa,--fatal-warnings to as-instr invocation

Nathan Chancellor nathan at kernel.org
Thu Jan 25 09:32:11 PST 2024


Certain assembler instruction tests may only induce warnings from the
assembler on an unsupported instruction or option, which causes as-instr
to succeed when it was expected to fail. Some tests workaround this
limitation by additionally testing that invalid input fails as expected.
However, this is fragile if the assembler is changed to accept the
invalid input, as it will cause the instruction/option to be unavailable
like it was unsupported even when it is.

Use '-Wa,--fatal-warnings' in the as-instr macro to turn these warnings
into hard errors, which avoids this fragility and makes tests more
robust and well formed.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
---
 scripts/Kconfig.include   | 2 +-
 scripts/Makefile.compiler | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Kconfig.include b/scripts/Kconfig.include
index 5a84b6443875..3ee8ecfb8c04 100644
--- a/scripts/Kconfig.include
+++ b/scripts/Kconfig.include
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ ld-option = $(success,$(LD) -v $(1))
 
 # $(as-instr,<instr>)
 # Return y if the assembler supports <instr>, n otherwise
-as-instr = $(success,printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o /dev/null -)
+as-instr = $(success,printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) -Wa$(comma)--fatal-warnings -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o /dev/null -)
 
 # check if $(CC) and $(LD) exist
 $(error-if,$(failure,command -v $(CC)),C compiler '$(CC)' not found)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.compiler b/scripts/Makefile.compiler
index 8fcb427405a6..92be0c9a13ee 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.compiler
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.compiler
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ as-option = $(call try-run,\
 # Usage: aflags-y += $(call as-instr,instr,option1,option2)
 
 as-instr = $(call try-run,\
-	printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) -Werror $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
+	printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) -Werror $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -Wa$(comma)--fatal-warnings -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
 
 # __cc-option
 # Usage: MY_CFLAGS += $(call __cc-option,$(CC),$(MY_CFLAGS),-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)

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