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Nathan Lynch
3473f26592 ARM: 8405/1: VDSO: fix regression with toolchains lacking ld.bfd executable
The Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2014.05 toolchain (gcc 4.8.3, binutils
2.24.51) has a GCC which implements -fuse-ld, and it doesn't include
the gold linker, but it lacks an ld.bfd executable in its
installation.  This means that passing -fuse-ld=bfd fails with:

      VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

Arguably this is a deficiency in the toolchain, but I suspect it's
commonly used enough that it's worth accommodating: just use

cc-ldoption (to cause a link attempt) instead of cc-option to test
whether we can use -fuse-ld.  So -fuse-ld=bfd won't be used with this
toolchain, but the build will rightly succeed, just as it does for
toolchains which don't implement -fuse-ld (and don't use gold as the
default linker).

Note: this will change the failure mode for a corner case I was trying
to handle in d2b30cd4b7, where the toolchain defaults to the gold
linker and the BFD linker is not found in PATH, from:

      VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
    collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

i.e. the BFD linker is not found, to:

      OBJCOPY arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so
    BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try
    linking with -N

that is, we fail to prevent gold from being used as the linker, and it
produces an object that objcopy can't digest.

Reported-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Tested-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Tested-by: Raphaël Poggi <poggi.raph@gmail.com>
Fixes: d2b30cd4b7 ("ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-07-31 18:54:45 +01:00
Russell King
06be5eefe1 Merge branches 'fixes' and 'ioremap' into for-linus 2015-07-07 12:35:33 +01:00
Szabolcs Nagy
13ee9fdba9 ARM: 8397/1: fix vdsomunge not to depend on glibc specific error.h
If the host toolchain is not glibc based then the arm kernel build
fails with

 arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge.c:53:19: fatal error: error.h: No such file or directory

error.h is a glibc only header (ie not available in musl, newlib and
bsd libcs).  Changed the error reporting to standard conforming code
to avoid depending on specific C implementations.

Signed-off-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fixes: 8512287a81 ("ARM: 8330/1: add VDSO user-space code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-07-03 09:57:21 +01:00
Nathan Lynch
d2b30cd4b7 ARM: 8384/1: VDSO: force use of BFD linker
When using a toolchain with gold as the default linker, the VDSO build
fails:

  VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
  HOSTCC  arch/arm/vdso/vdsomunge
  MUNGE   arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.dbg
  OBJCOPY arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so
BFD: arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so: Not enough room for program headers, try
linking with -N

For whatever reason, ld.gold is omitting an exidx program header that
ld.bfd emits, and even when I work around that, I don't get a working
VDSO.

For now, instead of supporting gold (which will fail to link the
kernel anyway since it does not implement --pic-veneer), direct the
compiler to use the traditional bfd linker.  This is accomplished by
using -fuse-ld, which is implemented in GCC 4.8 and later.

Note: one limitation of this is that if the toolchain is configured
to use gold by default, and the bfd linker is not in $PATH, the VDSO
build will fail:

  VDSO    arch/arm/vdso/vdso.so.raw
collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

This will happen if CROSS_COMPILE begins with a path such as
/opt/bin/arm-linux-gnu- but /opt/bin is not in $PATH.  This is
considered an acceptable corner-case limitation and is easily worked
around.

Additonal note: we use cc-option instead of cc-ldoption so that
-fuse-ld=bfd is placed in the command line if the compiler recognizes
the option.  Using cc-ldoption results in an attempt to link, which
fails in the situation just described, causing -fuse-ld=bfd to be
omitted and gold to be used for the VDSO link, which is what we're
trying to prevent.

Reported-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-06 10:37:12 +01:00
Nathan Lynch
d33ce23b21 ARM: 8385/1: VDSO: group link options
Currently the VDSO's link options are kind of a mess spread between

ccflags-y and cmd_vdsold.  Collect linker directives into one
variable, VDSO_LDFLAGS, and use that in cmd_vdsold.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-06-06 10:37:11 +01:00
Nathan Lynch
f80f6531b4 ARM: 8344/1: VDSO: honor CONFIG_VDSO in Makefile
When CONFIG_VDSO=n, the build normally does not enter arch/arm/vdso/
because arch/arm/Makefile does not add it to core-y.

However, if the user runs 'make arch/arm/vdso/' the VDSO targets will
get visited.  This is because the VDSO Makefile itself does not
consider the value of CONFIG_VDSO.

It is arguably better and more consistent behavior to generate an
empty built-in.o when CONFIG_VDSO=n and the user attempts to build
arch/arm/vdso/.  It's nicer because it doesn't try to build things
that Kconfig dependencies are there to prevent (e.g. the dependency on
AEABI), and it's less confusing than building objects that won't be
used in the final image.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-21 15:28:02 +01:00
Nathan Lynch
2b507a2d9c ARM: 8343/1: VDSO: add build artifacts to .gitignore
vdsomunge and vdso.so.raw are outputs that don't get matched by the
normal ignore rules.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-04-21 15:27:53 +01:00
Nathan Lynch
8512287a81 ARM: 8330/1: add VDSO user-space code
Place VDSO-related user-space code in arch/arm/kernel/vdso/.

It is almost completely written in C with some assembly helpers to
load the data page address, sample the counter, and fall back to
system calls when necessary.

The VDSO can service gettimeofday and clock_gettime when
CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER is enabled and the architected timer is present
(and correctly configured).  It reads the CP15-based virtual counter
to compute high-resolution timestamps.

Of particular note is that a post-processing step ("vdsomunge") is
necessary to produce a shared object which is architecturally allowed
to be used by both soft- and hard-float EABI programs.

The 2012 edition of the ARM ABI defines Tag_ABI_VFP_args = 3 "Code is
compatible with both the base and VFP variants; the user did not
permit non-variadic functions to pass FP parameters/results."
Unfortunately current toolchains do not support this tag, which is
ideally what we would use.

The best available option is to ensure that both EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT
and EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_HARD are unset in the ELF header's e_flags,
indicating that the shared object is "old" and should be accepted for
backward compatibility's sake.  While binutils < 2.24 appear to
produce a vdso.so with both flags clear, 2.24 always sets
EF_ARM_ABI_FLOAT_SOFT, with no way to inhibit this behavior.  So we
have to fix things up with a custom post-processing step.

In fact, the VDSO code in glibc does much less validation (including
checking these flags) than the code for handling conventional
file-backed shared libraries, so this is a bit moot unless glibc's
VDSO code becomes more strict.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathan_lynch@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2015-03-27 22:20:45 +00:00