Re: [yocto] How do I build an x32 Intel system?

["Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 10:44 -0800, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
I've been resurrecting an old Pyro project under Gatesgarth. It's an
Intel
32-bit system that needs maximum speed, so I decided to try to build
the
system and application as 64-bit, for more registers. It pretty much
worked
on the first try, and is about 8% faster. Now I'm trying to do it as
x32, to
see if that speeds it up even more.

Unable to find any specific instructions, I set the DEFAULTTUNE to
"core2-64-x32" in my BSP conf file. Also, in the old project I had
tinkered
around with this a bit, and had found some kernel config settings
somewhere,
so I tried using them again:

CONFIG_X86_X32=y
CONFIG_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_COMPAT_FOR_U64_ALIGNMENT=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS=y
CONFIG_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS=8
CONFIG_BLOCK_COMPAT=y

Other than the first one, I don't know whether these are correct, or
where I
originally got them, or if there's a stock .cfg file that does all
this.

The system built fine, the SDK built fine, and my application built
fine,
but when I boot, I get a kernel panic, preceded by some message about
"kmod
busy with 50 threads for more than 5 seconds now".

Is there some instruction on how to do a proper x32 build? I couldn't
find
one Googling. Barring that, do any of those kernel configs look bogus?

You can see the autobuilder x32 test configuration here:

https://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/typhoon/#/builders/57/builds/2866/steps/10/logs/stdio

the key parts of which are probably:

MACHINE = "qemux86-64"
DEFAULTTUNE = 'x86-64-x32'
baselib = "${@d.getVar('BASE_LIB_tune-' + (d.getVar('DEFAULTTUNE', True) or 'INVALID'), True) or 'lib'}"

Cheers,

Richard