[PATCH v9 02/10] Makefile: Prepare for using macros for inline asm

Nadav Amit
2018-10-03T21:33:14Z

Using macros for inline assembly improves both readability and
compilation decisions that are distorted by big assembly blocks that use
alternative sections. Compile macros.S and use it to assemble all C
files. Currently, only x86 will use it.

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
---
Makefile | 9 +++++++--
arch/x86/Makefile | 7 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/macros.S | 7 +++++++
scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 +++-
scripts/mod/Makefile | 2 ++
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/macros.S

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6c3da3e10f07..6c40d547513c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ scripts: scripts_basic asm-generic gcc-plugins $(autoksyms_h)
# version.h and scripts_basic is processed / created.

# Listed in dependency order
-PHONY += prepare archprepare prepare0 prepare1 prepare2 prepare3
+PHONY += prepare archprepare macroprepare prepare0 prepare1 prepare2 prepare3

# prepare3 is used to check if we are building in a separate output directory,
# and if so do:
@@ -1094,7 +1094,9 @@ prepare2: prepare3 outputmakefile asm-generic
prepare1: prepare2 $(version_h) $(autoksyms_h) include/generated/utsrelease.h
$(cmd_crmodverdir)

-archprepare: archheaders archscripts prepare1 scripts_basic
+macroprepare: prepare1 archmacros
+
+archprepare: archheaders archscripts macroprepare scripts_basic

prepare0: archprepare gcc-plugins
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=.
@@ -1162,6 +1164,9 @@ archheaders:
PHONY += archscripts
archscripts:

+PHONY += archmacros
+archmacros:
+
PHONY += __headers
__headers: $(version_h) scripts_basic uapi-asm-generic archheaders archscripts
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts build_unifdef
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index 8f6e7eb8ae9f..18a0084f134b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -237,6 +237,13 @@ archscripts: scripts_basic
archheaders:
$(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/entry/syscalls all

+archmacros:
+ $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=arch/x86/kernel arch/x86/kernel/macros.s
+
+ASM_MACRO_FLAGS = -Wa,arch/x86/kernel/macros.s -Wa,-
+export ASM_MACRO_FLAGS
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(ASM_MACRO_FLAGS)
+
###
# Kernel objects

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S b/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..cfc1c7d1a6eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/macros.S
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
+
+/*
+ * This file includes headers whose assembly part includes macros which are
+ * commonly used. The macros are precompiled into assmebly file which is later
+ * assembled together with each compiled file.
+ */
diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index ce53639a864a..8aeb60eb6ee3 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ __cc-option = $(call try-run,\

# Do not attempt to build with gcc plugins during cc-option tests.
# (And this uses delayed resolution so the flags will be up to date.)
-CC_OPTION_CFLAGS = $(filter-out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS),$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
+# In addition, do not include the asm macros which are built later.
+CC_OPTION_FILTERED = $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) $(ASM_MACRO_FLAGS)
+CC_OPTION_CFLAGS = $(filter-out $(CC_OPTION_FILTERED),$(KBUILD_CFLAGS))

# cc-option
# Usage: cflags-y += $(call cc-option,-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/Makefile b/scripts/mod/Makefile
index 42c5d50f2bcc..a5b4af47987a 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/mod/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD := y
hostprogs-y := modpost mk_elfconfig
always := $(hostprogs-y) empty.o

+CFLAGS_REMOVE_empty.o := $(ASM_MACRO_FLAGS)
+
modpost-objs := modpost.o file2alias.o sumversion.o

devicetable-offsets-file := devicetable-offsets.h
--
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