From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:02:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191018200210.GR28442@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191018190022.GA1292@ubuntu-m2-xlarge-x86>
On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 12:00:22PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Just as an FYI, there was some more discussion around the availablity
> and use of bcmp in this LLVM bug which spawned
> commit 5f074f3e192f ("lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp").
>
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035#c13
>
> I believe this is the proper solution but I am fine with whatever works,
> I just want our CI to be green without any out of tree patches again...
I think the proper solution is for the kernel to *do* use -ffreestanding,
and then somehow tell the kernel that memcpy etc. are the standard
functions. A freestanding GCC already requires memcpy, memmove, memset,
memcmp, and sometimes abort to exist and do the standard thing; why cannot
programs then also rely on it to be the standard functions.
What exact functions are the reason the kernel does not use -ffreestanding?
Is it just memcpy? Is more wanted?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-18 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-11 18:20 [PATCH v3 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for pseries_defconfig Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 18:20 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 18:20 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 20:55 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-09-11 18:20 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-11 21:01 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-09-12 5:43 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-09-12 17:30 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-14 2:50 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for pseries_defconfig Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 2:50 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 2:51 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 2:51 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 9:35 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-14 15:56 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-10-14 19:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-18 19:00 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-18 20:02 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2019-10-22 5:15 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-22 8:57 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-10-30 4:12 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-10-14 16:03 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for pseries_defconfig Nick Desaulniers
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for a few defconfigs Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-26 1:13 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 2/3] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-19 4:57 ` [PATCH v5 3/3] powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp Nathan Chancellor
2019-11-25 20:15 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] LLVM/Clang fixes for a few defconfigs Nick Desaulniers
2019-11-28 4:59 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-28 7:45 ` Nathan Chancellor
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