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From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 2/6] kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper flags and language target
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:51:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250811235151.1108688-3-nathan@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250811235151.1108688-1-nathan@kernel.org>

From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

commit d5c8d6e0fa61401a729e9eb6a9c7077b2d3aebb0 upstream.

as-instr uses KBUILD_AFLAGS, but as-option uses KBUILD_CFLAGS. This can
cause as-option to fail unexpectedly when CONFIG_WERROR is set, because
clang will emit -Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument for various -m
and -f flags in KBUILD_CFLAGS for assembler sources.

Callers of as-option and as-instr should be adding flags to
KBUILD_AFLAGS / aflags-y, not KBUILD_CFLAGS / cflags-y. Use
KBUILD_AFLAGS in all macros to clear up the initial problem.

Unfortunately, -Wunused-command-line-argument can still be triggered
with clang by the presence of warning flags or macro definitions because
'-x assembler' is used, instead of '-x assembler-with-cpp', which will
consume these flags. Switch to '-x assembler-with-cpp' in places where
'-x assembler' is used, as the compiler is always used as the driver for
out of line assembler sources in the kernel.

Finally, add -Werror to these macros so that they behave consistently
whether or not CONFIG_WERROR is set.

[nathan: Reworded and expanded on problems in commit message
         Use '-x assembler-with-cpp' in a couple more places]

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1699
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
---
 scripts/Kbuild.include | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/Kbuild.include b/scripts/Kbuild.include
index 82eb69f07b35..11f905b95e65 100644
--- a/scripts/Kbuild.include
+++ b/scripts/Kbuild.include
@@ -99,16 +99,16 @@ try-run = $(shell set -e;		\
 	fi)
 
 # as-option
-# Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-isa=foo,)
+# Usage: aflags-y += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-isa=foo,)
 
 as-option = $(call try-run,\
-	$(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) $(1) -c -x assembler /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
+	$(CC) -Werror $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) $(1) -c -x assembler-with-cpp /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
 
 # as-instr
-# Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-instr,instr,option1,option2)
+# Usage: aflags-y += $(call as-instr,instr,option1,option2)
 
 as-instr = $(call try-run,\
-	printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
+	printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(CC) -Werror $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler-with-cpp -o "$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
 
 # __cc-option
 # Usage: MY_CFLAGS += $(call __cc-option,$(CC),$(MY_CFLAGS),-march=winchip-c6,-march=i586)
-- 
2.50.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-11 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-11 23:51 [PATCH 5.4 0/6] Fix build due to clang -Qunused-arguments change Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 5.4 1/6] ARM: 9448/1: Use an absolute path to unified.h in KBUILD_AFLAGS Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-12  4:12   ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-11 23:51 ` Nathan Chancellor [this message]
2025-08-12  4:12   ` [PATCH 5.4 2/6] kbuild: Update assembler calls to use proper flags and language target Sasha Levin
2025-08-12 21:18     ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 5.4 3/6] mips: Include KBUILD_CPPFLAGS in CHECKFLAGS invocation Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-12  4:12   ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 5.4 4/6] kbuild: Add CLANG_FLAGS to as-instr Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-12  4:12   ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 5.4 5/6] kbuild: add $(CLANG_FLAGS) to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-12  4:12   ` Sasha Levin
2025-08-12 21:11     ` Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-11 23:51 ` [PATCH 5.4 6/6] kbuild: Add KBUILD_CPPFLAGS to as-option invocation Nathan Chancellor
2025-08-12  4:12   ` Sasha Levin

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