[PATCH] riscv: Adjust dependencies of HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE selection

Conor Dooley conor at kernel.org
Wed Apr 5 10:56:36 PDT 2023


On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 01:34:21PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When building allmodconfig with clang and its integrated assembler and
> linking with a version of GNU ld prior to 2.36, the following link error
> occurs:
> 
>   riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: .init.data has both ordered [`__patchable_function_entries' in init/main.o] and unordered [`.init_array.0' in kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.o] sections
>   riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: bad value
> 
> This is the same error addressed by commit 45bd8951806e ("arm64: Improve
> HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS selection for clang") for arm64. See that
> changelog for a full description of why this error occurs with this
> combination of tools.
> 
> In a similar manner as that change, restrict the
> CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE selection to combinations of tools known to
> work so that there are no errors.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1817
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/Kconfig | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> index eb7f29a412f8..4b82838ac870 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
> @@ -136,12 +136,23 @@ config RISCV
>  	select TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
>  	select UACCESS_MEMCPY if !MMU
>  	select ZONE_DMA32 if 64BIT
> -	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)
> +	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && MMU && (CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE || GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE)
>  	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
>  	select HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD if !XIP_KERNEL
>  	select HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER
>  	select HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER if !XIP_KERNEL && !PREEMPTION
>  
> +config CLANG_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> +	def_bool CC_IS_CLANG
> +	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/6ab8927931851bb42b2c93a00801dc499d7d9b1e
> +	depends on CLANG_VERSION >= 130000
> +	# https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1817
> +	depends on AS_IS_GNU || (AS_IS_LLVM && (LD_IS_LLD || LD_VERSION >= 23600))
> +
> +config GCC_SUPPORTS_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
> +	def_bool CC_IS_GCC
> +	depends on $(cc-option,-fpatchable-function-entry=8)

I thought about merging these, but I think you just end up with
something that is difficult to grok. Explanation in the arm64 is pretty
good & the change follows.
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>

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