[PATCH v4 3/5] MIPS: Unconditionally specify '-EB' or '-EL'

Nathan Chancellor
2020-04-28T22:14:53Z

This was all done to work around a GCC bug that has been fixed after
4.2. The kernel requires GCC 4.6 or newer so remove all of these hacks
and just use the traditional flags.

$ mips64-linux-gcc --version | head -n1
mips64-linux-gcc (GCC) 4.6.3

$ mips64-linux-gcc -EB -dM -E -C -x c /dev/null | grep MIPSE
#define MIPSEB 1
#define __MIPSEB__ 1
#define _MIPSEB 1
#define __MIPSEB 1

$ mips64-linux-gcc -EL -dM -E -C -x c /dev/null | grep MIPSE
#define __MIPSEL__ 1
#define MIPSEL 1
#define _MIPSEL 1
#define __MIPSEL 1

This is necessary when converting the MIPS VDSO to use $(LD) instead of
$(CC) to link because the OUTPUT_FORMAT is defaulted to little endian
and only flips to big endian when '-EB' is set on the command line.
There is no issue currently because the compiler explicitly passes
'-EB' or '-EL' to the linker regardless of whether or not it was
provided by the user. Passing '-v' to VDSO_LDFLAGS shows:

<gcc_prefix>/libexec/gcc/mips64-linux/9.3.0/collect2 ... -EB ...

even though '-EB' is nowhere to be found in KBUILD_CFLAGS. The VDSO
Makefile already supports getting '-EB' or '-EL' from KBUILD_CFLAGS
through a filter directive but '-EB' or '-EL' is not always present.

If we do not do this, we will see the following error when compiling
for big endian:

$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips64-linux- \
64r2el_defconfig arch/mips/vdso/
...
mips64-linux-ld: arch/mips/vdso/elf.o: compiled for a big endian system
and target is little endian
mips64-linux-ld: arch/mips/vdso/elf.o: endianness incompatible with that
of the selected emulation
mips64-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file
arch/mips/vdso/elf.o
...

Remove this legacy hack and just use '-EB' and '-EL' unconditionally.

Reported-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
---

v3 -> v4:

* New patch.

arch/mips/Makefile | 25 -------------------------
1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index e1c44aed81565..301efb90b51ed 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -116,33 +116,8 @@ endif

cflags-y += -ffreestanding

-#
-# We explicitly add the endianness specifier if needed, this allows
-# to compile kernels with a toolchain for the other endianness. We
-# carefully avoid to add it redundantly because gcc 3.3/3.4 complains
-# when fed the toolchain default!
-#
-# Certain gcc versions up to gcc 4.1.1 (probably 4.2-subversion as of
-# 2006-10-10 don't properly change the predefined symbols if -EB / -EL
-# are used, so we kludge that here. A bug has been filed at
-# http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29413.
-#
-# clang doesn't suffer from these issues and our checks against -dumpmachine
-# don't work so well when cross compiling, since without providing --target
-# clang's output will be based upon the build machine. So for clang we simply
-# unconditionally specify -EB or -EL as appropriate.
-#
-ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += -EB
cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -EL
-else
-undef-all += -UMIPSEB -U_MIPSEB -U__MIPSEB -U__MIPSEB__
-undef-all += -UMIPSEL -U_MIPSEL -U__MIPSEL -U__MIPSEL__
-predef-be += -DMIPSEB -D_MIPSEB -D__MIPSEB -D__MIPSEB__
-predef-le += -DMIPSEL -D_MIPSEL -D__MIPSEL -D__MIPSEL__
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.*el-.*' && echo -EB $(undef-all) $(predef-be))
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.*el-.*' || echo -EL $(undef-all) $(predef-le))
-endif

cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS) += $(call cc-option,-mno-sched-prolog) \
-fno-omit-frame-pointer
--
2.26.2