Re: linux-parisc compile failure in current git

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On 8/17/22 22:59, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi--
>
> On 6/23/21 13:33, Helge Deller wrote:
>> * Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>:
>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 4:04 PM Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Masahiro,
>>>>
>>>> On 6/10/21 4:03 AM, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 7:50 AM Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>>>> But, please keep in mind that there is an issue remaining.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please see this code:
>>>>>
>>>>> ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
>>>>> UTS_MACHINE := parisc64
>>>>> CHECKFLAGS += -D__LP64__=1
>>>>> CC_ARCHES = hppa64
>>>>> LD_BFD := elf64-hppa-linux
>>>>> else # 32-bit
>>>>> CC_ARCHES = hppa hppa2.0 hppa1.1
>>>>> LD_BFD := elf32-hppa-linux
>>>>> endif
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> UTS_MACHINE is determined by CONFIG_64BIT.
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_64BIT is defined only after Kconfig is finished.
>>>>> When you are trying to configure the .config,
>>>>> CONFIG_64BIT is not defined yet.
>>>>> So UTS_MACHINE is always 'parisc'.
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>> See above, but it worked when I had SUBARCH=x86 (when running my laptop).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> As you know, Kconfig files now have a bunch of 'cc-option' syntax
>>>>> to check the compiler capability in Kconfig time.
>>>>> Hence, you need to provide a proper compiler in Kconfig time too.
>>>>>
>>>>> When you build a 64-bit parisc kernel on a 32-bit parisc machine,
>>>>
>>>> Please note, that we don't have a 64-bit parisc userspace yet (just kernel).
>>>> This means, that all builds on parisc machines are 32bit and do a
>>>> cross-compilation to a parisc64 kernel if requested in the .config.
>>>>
>>>>> Kconfig is passed with CC=gcc since SUBARCH==UTS_MACHINE==parisc.
>>>>> After Kconfig, CROSS_COMPILE=hppa64-* is set,
>>>>> and the kernel is built by CC=hppa64-*-gcc.
>>>>
>>>> Right. That is the old behaviour. Based on the CONFIG_64BIT option
>>>> the hppa64 compiler is choosen for CROSS_COMPILE.
>>>>
>>>>> So, Kconfig evaluated a compiletely different compiler. This is pointless.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, probably.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> There are some options
>>>>>
>>>>> [option 1]
>>>>>    revert the parisc bit of 23243c1ace9fb4eae2f75e0fe0ece8e3219fb4f3
>>>>>    This will restore the functionality you may want, but
>>>>>    as I said above, Kconfig is doing pointless things.
>>>>
>>>> as mentioned above: Doesn't solve the issue.
>>>>
>>>>> [option 2]
>>>>>     Stop using cc-cross-prefix, and pass CROSS_COMPILE explicitly.
>>>>>     This is what many architectures including arm, arm64 do.
>>>>>     You need to explicitly pass CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- etc.
>>>>>     if you are cross-compiling arm64.
>>>>
>>>> Might be an option, but it's not as handy as simply choosing CONFIG_64BIT
>>>> and then things are done automatically.
>>>>
>>>>> [option 3]
>>>>>     Introduce ARCH=parisc64.
>>>>>
>>>>>     When you are building 64-bit kernel, you can pass ARCH=parisc64
>>>>>      A patch attached.  (but not tested much)
>>>>
>>>> Tried it, but doesn't work.
>>>> asm-offsets.c is still preprocessed with 32bit compiler (gcc, not hppa20-gcc).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help so far!
>>>> If you like I'm happy to give you an account on a hppa64 machine to reproduce yourself.
>>>> I'll now try to bisect where it goes wrong. There must be something else before commit 23243c1ace9fb4eae2f75e0fe0ece8e3219fb4f3.
>>>>
>>>> Helge
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry for my late reply.
>>
>> Me too.... :-(
>
> Sorry to jump in even later, but:
>
> I see that
> $ make ARCH=parisc64 defconfig
> does set CONFIG_64BIT.
>
> Is there a way to do
> $ make ARCH=parisc64 allmodconfig
> ?
> That does not set CONFIG_64BIT in my testing.
> (testing on linux-next-20220817)

Right. It seems to delete the CONFIG_64BIT which was set earlier.

> I would like to have a command-line method to do that,
> without editing the .config file.

I found your patch for riscv:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210912034538.19404-1-rdunlap@infradead.org/
and added a similiar one for parisc into my for-next git tree:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=34793a5d09d9122f90acfa7e8f705436d5090d4d

Does that help?

Although, I'd prefer a generic solution for this problem, e.g.
a new KCONFIG_MIN_RAND_CONFIG=$(srctree)/arch/parisc/configs/32-bit.config
option which is used by randconfig/allmodconfig/....
Then it could be set once, and we can get rid of adding similiar patches
to the arches, e.g. in arch/parisc/Makefile it could be:
ifeq ($(ARCH),parisc64)
        KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := generic-64bit_defconfig
	KCONFIG_MIN_RAND_CONFIG = $(srctree)/arch/parisc/configs/64-bit.config
else
        KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := generic-32bit_defconfig
	KCONFIG_MIN_RAND_CONFIG = $(srctree)/arch/parisc/configs/32-bit.config
endif
Thoughts?

Helge