Michel Dänzer and a couple of other people reported inexplicable random
oopses in the scheduler, and the cause turns out to be gcc mis-compiling
the load_balance() function when debugging is enabled. The gcc bug
apparently goes back to gcc-4.5, but slight optimization changes means
that it now showed up as a problem in 4.9.0 and 4.9.1.
The instruction scheduling problem causes gcc to schedule a spill
operation to before the stack frame has been created, which in turn can
corrupt the spilled value if an interrupt comes in. There may be other
effects of this bug too, but that's the code generation problem seen in
Michel's case.
This is fixed in current gcc HEAD, but the workaround as suggested by
Markus Trippelsdorf is pretty simple: use -fno-var-tracking-assignments
when compiling the kernel, which disables the gcc code that causes the
problem. This can result in slightly worse debug information for
variable accesses, but that is infinitely preferable to actual code
generation problems.
Doing this unconditionally (not just for CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO) also allows
non-debug builds to verify that the debug build would be identical: we
can do
export GCC_COMPARE_DEBUG=1
to make gcc internally verify that the result of the build is
independent of the "-g" flag (it will make the compiler build everything
twice, toggling the debug flag, and compare the results).
Without the "-fno-var-tracking-assignments" option, the build would fail
(even with 4.8.3 that didn't show the actual stack frame bug) with a gcc
compare failure.
See also gcc bugzilla:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61801
Reported-by: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Suggested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull kbuild fixes from Michal Marek:
"Three more fixes for the relative build dir feature:
- Shut up make -s again
- Fix for rpm/deb/tar-pkg with O=<subdir>
- Fix for CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE"
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
firmware: Create directories for external firmware
kbuild: Fix packaging targets with relative $(srctree)
kbuild: Do not print the build directory with make -s
All other users of Makefile.build set $(obj) to the name of the
subdirectory to build. Do the same for the packaging targets, otherwise
the build fails if $(srctree) is a relative directory:
$ make O=build tar-pkg
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mmarek/linux-2.6/build'
CHK include/config/kernel.release
../scripts/Makefile.build:44: ../../scripts/package/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `../../scripts/package/Makefile'. Stop.
Fixes: 9da0763b ("kbuild: Use relative path when building in a subdir of the source tree")
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Commit c2e28dc9 (kbuild: Print the name of the build directory) prints
the name of the build directory for O= builds, but we should not be
doing this in make -s mode, so that commands like
make -s O=<dir> kernelrelease
can be used by scripts. This matches the behavior of make itself, where
the -s option implies --no-print-directory.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild fix from Michal Marek:
"There is one more fix for the relative paths series from -rc1: Print
the path to the build directory at the start of the build, so that
editors and IDEs can match the relative paths to source files"
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Print the name of the build directory
With commit 9da0763b (kbuild: Use relative path when building in a
subdir of the source tree), the compiler messages include relative
paths. These are however relative to the build directory, not the
directory where make was started. Print the "Entering directory ..."
message once, so that IDEs/editors can find the source files.
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
"Kbuild changes for v3.16-rc1:
- cross-compilation fix so that cc-option is testing the right
compiler
- Fix for make defconfig all
- Using relative paths to the object and source directory where
possible, plus fixes for the fallout of the change
- several cleanups in the Makefiles and scripts
The powerpc fix is from today, because it was only discovered
recently. The rest has been in linux-next for some time"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
powerpc: Avoid circular dependency with zImage.%
kbuild: create include/config directory in scripts/kconfig/Makefile
kbuild: do not create include/linux directory
Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command line options
kbuild: do not add "selinux" to subdir- twice
um: Fix for relative objtree when generating x86 headers
kbuild: Use relative path when building in a subdir of the source tree
kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree
kbuild: Use relative path for $(objtree)
firmware: Use $(quote) in the Makefile
firmware: Simplify directory creation
kbuild: trivial - fix comment block indent
kbuild: trivial - remove trailing spaces
kbuild: support simultaneous "make %config" and "make all"
kbuild: move extra gcc checks to scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
The directory include/config is used only for
silentoldconfig, localmodconfig, localyesconfig.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
There are no generated files under include/linux directory.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
On architectures that setup CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile
(arc, blackfin, m68k, mips, parisc, score, sh, tile, unicore32, xtensa),
cc-option and cc-disable-warning may check against the wrong compiler,
causing errors like
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-maybe-uninitialized"
if the host gcc supports a compiler option, while the cross compiler
doesn't support that option.
Move all logic using cc-option or cc-disable-warning below the inclusion
of the arch's Makefile to fix this.
Introduced by
- commit e74fc973b6 ("Turn off
-Wmaybe-uninitialized when building with -Os"),
- commit 61163efae0 ("kbuild: LLVMLinux:
Add Kbuild support for building kernel with Clang").
As -Wno-maybe-uninitialized requires a quite recent gcc (gcc 4.6.3 on
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS doesn't support it), this only showed up recently (gcc
4.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS does support it).
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Merge tag 'llvmlinux-for-v3.16' of git://git.linuxfoundation.org/llvmlinux/kernel
Pull LLVM patches from Behan Webster:
"Next set of patches to support compiling the kernel with clang.
They've been soaking in linux-next since the last merge window.
More still in the works for the next merge window..."
* tag 'llvmlinux-for-v3.16' of git://git.linuxfoundation.org/llvmlinux/kernel:
arm, unwind, LLVMLinux: Enable clang to be used for unwinding the stack
ARM: LLVMLinux: Change "extern inline" to "static inline" in glue-cache.h
all: LLVMLinux: Change DWARF flag to support gcc and clang
net: netfilter: LLVMLinux: vlais-netfilter
crypto: LLVMLinux: aligned-attribute.patch
Both gcc (well, actually gnu as) and clang support the "-Wa,-gdwarf-2" option
(though clang does not support "-Wa,--gdwarf-2"). Since these flags are equivalent
in meaning, this patch uses the one which is better supported across compilers.
Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
When doing make O=<subdir>, use '..' to refer to the source tree. This
allows for more readable compiler messages, and, more importantly, it
sets the VPATH to '..', so filenames in WARN_ON() etc. will be shorter.
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
When not using O=, $(srctree) refers to the same directory as
$(objtree), so we can set it to '.' as well. This makes the default
include path more compact and results in more readable messages from the
compiler. The only case where we need the absolute path is when creating
the 'source' symlink in /lib/modules.
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The main Makefile sets its working directory to the object tree and
never changes it again. Therefore, we can use '.' instead of the
absolute path. The only case where we need the absolute path is when
creating the 'build' symlink in /lib/modules.
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Kbuild is supposed to support mixed targets. (%config and build targets)
But "make all" did nothing if it was run with configuration targets.
For example,
$ LANG=C make defconfig all
HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.lex.c
SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/conf
*** Default configuration is based on 'x86_64_defconfig'
#
# configuration written to .config
#
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
This commits allows "make %config all" and makes sure
mixed targets are built one by one in the given order.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
W=... provides extra gcc checks.
Having such code in scripts/Makefile.build results in the same flags
being added to KBUILD_CFLAGS multiple times becuase
scripts/Makefile.build is invoked every time Kbuild descends into
the subdirectories.
Since the top Makefile is already too cluttered, this commit moves
all of extra gcc check stuff to a new file scripts/Makefile.extrawarn,
which is included from the top Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
CC: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
"Here is the non-critical part of kbuild:
- One bogus coccinelle check removed, one check fixed not to suggest
the obsolete PTR_RET macro
- scripts/tags.sh does not index the generated *.mod.c files
- new objdiff tool to list differences between two versions of an
object file
- A fix for scripts/bootgraph.pl"
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
scripts/coccinelle: Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
scripts/bootgraph.pl: Add graphic header
scripts: objdiff: detect object code changes between two commits
Coccicheck: Remove memcpy to struct assignment test
scripts/tags.sh: Ignore *.mod.c
Add support to toplevel Makefile for compiling with clang, both for
HOSTCC and CC. Use cc-option to prevent gcc option from breaking clang, and
from clang options from breaking gcc.
Clang 3.4 semantics are the same as gcc semantics for unsupported flags. For
unsupported warnings clang 3.4 returns true but shows a warning and gcc shows
a warning and returns false.
Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
objdiff is useful when doing large code cleanups. For example, when
removing checkpatch warnings and errors from new drivers in the staging
tree.
objdiff can be used in conjunction with a git rebase to confirm that
each commit made no changes to the resulting object code. It has the
same return values as diff(1).
This was written specifically to support adding the skein and threefish
cryto drivers to the staging tree. I needed a programmatic way to
confirm that commits changing >90% of the lines didn't inadvertently
change the code.
Temporary files (objdump output) are stored in
/path/to/linux/.tmp_objdiff
'make mrproper' will remove this directory.
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
- cleanups in the main Makefiles and Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
- make O=... directory is automatically created if needed
- mrproper/distclean removes the old include/linux/version.h to make
life easier when bisecting across the commit that moved the version.h
file
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: docbook: fix the include error when executing "make help"
kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build
kbuild: remove redundant '.*.cmd' pattern from make distclean
kbuild: move "quote" to Kbuild.include to be consistent
kbuild: docbook: use $(obj) and $(src) rather than specific path
kbuild: unconditionally clobber include/linux/version.h on distclean
kbuild: docbook: specify KERNELDOC dependency correctly
kbuild: docbook: include cmd files more simply
kbuild: specify build_docproc as a phony target
Updates to devicetree core code. This branch contains the following notable changes:
* Add reserved memory binding
* Make struct device_node a kobject and remove legacy /proc/device-tree
* ePAPR conformance fixes
* Update in-kernel DTC copy to version v1.4.0
* Preparation changes for dynamic device tree overlays
* minor bug fixes and documentation changes
The most significant change in this branch is the conversion of struct
device_node to be a kobject that is exposed via sysfs and removal of the
old /proc/device-tree code. This simplifies the device tree handling
code and tightens up the lifecycle on device tree nodes.
[updated: added fix for dangling select PROC_DEVICETREE]
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Merge tag 'dt-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux
Pull devicetree changes from Grant Likely:
"Updates to devicetree core code. This branch contains the following
notable changes:
- add reserved memory binding
- make struct device_node a kobject and remove legacy
/proc/device-tree
- ePAPR conformance fixes
- update in-kernel DTC copy to version v1.4.0
- preparatory changes for dynamic device tree overlays
- minor bug fixes and documentation changes
The most significant change in this branch is the conversion of struct
device_node to be a kobject that is exposed via sysfs and removal of
the old /proc/device-tree code. This simplifies the device tree
handling code and tightens up the lifecycle on device tree nodes.
[updated: added fix for dangling select PROC_DEVICETREE]"
* tag 'dt-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux: (29 commits)
dt: Remove dangling "select PROC_DEVICETREE"
of: Add support for ePAPR "stdout-path" property
of: device_node kobject lifecycle fixes
of: only scan for reserved mem when fdt present
powerpc: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
arm64: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
of: add missing major vendors
of: add vendor prefix for SMSC
of: remove /proc/device-tree
of/selftest: Add self tests for manipulation of properties
of: Make device nodes kobjects so they show up in sysfs
arm: add support for reserved memory defined by device tree
drivers: of: add support for custom reserved memory drivers
drivers: of: add initialization code for dynamic reserved memory
drivers: of: add initialization code for static reserved memory
of: document bindings for reserved-memory nodes
Revert "of: fix of_update_property()"
kbuild: dtbs_install: new make target
ARM: mvebu: Allows to get the SoC ID even without PCI enabled
of: Allows to use the PCI translator without the PCI core
...
Kbuild supports saving output files in a separate directory.
But the build directory must be created beforehand. For example,
$ mkdir -p dir/to/store/output/files
$ make O=dir/to/store/output/files defconfig
Creating a build directory automatically would be useful.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
'.*.cmd' files are cleaned-up by "make clean".
The same pattern in "make distclean" is unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
As of v3.7, the UAPI changes relocated headers around such that the
kernel version header lived in a new place.
If a person is bisecting and if you go back to pre-UAPI days,
you will create an include/linux/version.h -- then if you checkout a
post-UAPI kernel, and even run "make distclean" it still won't delete
that old version file. So you get a situation like this:
$ grep -R LINUX_VERSION_CODE include/
include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h:#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 200192
include/linux/version.h:#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132646
The value in that second line is representative of a v2.6.38 version.
And it will be sourced/used, hence leading to strange behaviours, such
as drivers/staging content (which typically hasn't been purged of version
ifdefs) failing to build.
Since it is a subtle mode of failure, lets always clobber the old
file when doing a distclean.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Linus Torvalds