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MIPS: VDSO: Use same -m%-float cflag as the kernel proper
authorPaul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:21:17 +0000 (22:21 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 07:08:05 +0000 (09:08 +0200)
commit263c71d2d440ed6a9d36e822970c9b5cce98811b
tree139505d1c190ee7db82e35a228a67030d68ea522
parent81b74b71a37b6dc55f6d8716e8dbda87ea9aa4fd
MIPS: VDSO: Use same -m%-float cflag as the kernel proper

commit 0648e50e548d881d025b9419a1a168753c8e2bf7 upstream.

The MIPS VDSO build currently doesn't provide the -msoft-float flag to
the compiler as the kernel proper does. This results in an attempt to
use the compiler's default floating point configuration, which can be
problematic in cases where this is incompatible with the target CPU's
-march= flag. For example decstation_defconfig fails to build using
toolchains in which gcc was configured --with-fp-32=xx with the
following error:

    LDS     arch/mips/vdso/vdso.lds
  cc1: error: '-march=r3000' requires '-mfp32'
  make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:379: arch/mips/vdso/vdso.lds] Error 1

The kernel proper avoids this error because we build with the
-msoft-float compiler flag, rather than using the compiler's default.
Pass this flag through to the VDSO build so that it too becomes agnostic
to the toolchain's floating point configuration.

Note that this is filtered out from KBUILD_CFLAGS rather than simply
always using -msoft-float such that if we switch the kernel to use
-mno-float in the future the VDSO will automatically inherit the change.

The VDSO doesn't actually include any floating point code, and its
.MIPS.abiflags section is already manually generated to specify that
it's compatible with any floating point ABI. As such this change should
have no effect on the resulting VDSO, apart from fixing the build
failure for affected toolchains.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reported-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Tested-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>
References: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mips/1477843551-21813-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net/
References: https://kernelci.org/build/id/5c4e4ae059b5142a249ad004/logs/
Fixes: ebb5e78cc634 ("MIPS: Initial implementation of a VDSO")
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/mips/vdso/Makefile