Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 4 authors, 2019-03-28

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: strip whitespace in cmd_record_mcount findstring

From: Masahiro Yamada <hidden>
Date: 2019-03-26 05:30:40
Also in: linux-kbuild, lkml

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 1:05 AM Joe Lawrence [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
CC_FLAGS_FTRACE may contain trailing whitespace that interferes with
findstring.

For example, commit 6977f95e63b9 ("powerpc: avoid -mno-sched-epilog on
GCC 4.9 and newer") introduced a change such that on my ppc64le box,
CC_FLAGS_FTRACE="-pg -mprofile-kernel ".  (Note the trailing space.)
When cmd_record_mcount is now invoked, findstring fails as the ftrace
flags were found at very end of _c_flags, without the trailing space.

  _c_flags=" ... -pg -mprofile-kernel"
  CC_FLAGS_FTRACE="-pg -mprofile-kernel "
                                       ^
    findstring is looking for this extra space

Remove the redundant whitespaces from CC_FLAGS_FTRACE in
cmd_record_mcount to avoid this problem.

Fixes: 6977f95e63b9 ("powerpc: avoid -mno-sched-epilog on GCC 4.9 and newer").
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
---

Standard disclaimer: I'm not a kbuild expert, but this works around the
problem I reported where ftrace and livepatch self-tests were failing as
specified object files were not run through the recordmcount.pl script:

ppc64le: ftrace self-tests and $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) broken?
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-March/187298.html

 scripts/Makefile.build | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 2554a15ecf2b..74d402b5aa3c 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -199,10 +199,10 @@ sub_cmd_record_mcount = perl $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \
        "$(if $(part-of-module),1,0)" "$(@)";
 recordmcount_source := $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl
 endif # BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
-cmd_record_mcount =                                            \
-       if [ "$(findstring $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),$(_c_flags))" =   \
-            "$(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)" ]; then                       \
-               $(sub_cmd_record_mcount)                        \
+cmd_record_mcount =                                                    \
+       if [ "$(findstring $(strip $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)),$(_c_flags))" =  \
+            "$(strip $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE))" ]; then                      \
+               $(sub_cmd_record_mcount)                                \
        fi
 endif # CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT
 endif # CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD
--
2.20.1


I do not see a point in using the shell command here
in the first place.

Instead of adding crappy workarounds,
I guess the following simple code should work:


index 2554a15..5f13021 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -199,11 +199,8 @@ sub_cmd_record_mcount = perl
$(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl "$(ARCH)" \
        "$(if $(part-of-module),1,0)" "$(@)";
 recordmcount_source := $(srctree)/scripts/recordmcount.pl
 endif # BUILD_C_RECORDMCOUNT
-cmd_record_mcount =                                            \
-       if [ "$(findstring $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),$(_c_flags))" =   \
-            "$(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)" ]; then                       \
-               $(sub_cmd_record_mcount)                        \
-       fi
+cmd_record_mcount = $(if $(findstring $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE),$(_c_flags)),\
+                 $(sub_cmd_record_mcount))
 endif # CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT
 endif # CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD



-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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