[PATCH v3] kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags

From: Elliot Berman
Date: Tue Feb 01 2022 - 16:36:04 EST


Allow additional arguments be passed to userprogs compilation.
Reproducible clang builds need to provide a sysroot and gcc path to
ensure same toolchain is used across hosts. KCFLAGS is not currently
used for any user programs compilation, so add new USERCFLAGS and
USERLDFLAGS which serves similar purpose as HOSTCFLAGS/HOSTLDFLAGS.

Clang 13+ might detect GCC installation on hosts which have it installed
to a default location in /. With addition of these environment
variables, you can specify flags such as:

$ make USERCFLAGS=--sysroot=/path/to/sysroot

This can also be used to specify different sysroots such as musl or
bionic which may be installed on the host in paths that the compiler
may not search by default.

Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes since v2:
- Incorporated Nick's suggestions:
- Addressed docs and commit text comments
- Introduced KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS as suggested

Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst | 11 +++++++++++
Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst | 2 ++
Makefile | 10 ++++++----
init/Kconfig | 8 ++++----
usr/include/Makefile | 3 +++
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
index 2d1fc03d346e..ef19b9c13523 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kbuild.rst
@@ -77,6 +77,17 @@ HOSTLDLIBS
----------
Additional libraries to link against when building host programs.

+.. _userkbuildflags:
+
+USERCFLAGS
+----------
+Additional options used for $(CC) when compiling userprogs.
+
+USERLDFLAGS
+-----------
+Additional options used for $(LD) when linking userprogs. userprogs are linked
+with CC, so $(USERLDFLAGS) should include "-Wl," prefix as applicable.
+
KBUILD_KCONFIG
--------------
Set the top-level Kconfig file to the value of this environment
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
index b008b90b92c9..11a296e52d68 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.rst
@@ -982,6 +982,8 @@ The syntax is quite similar. The difference is to use "userprogs" instead of

When linking bpfilter_umh, it will be passed the extra option -static.

+ From command line, :ref:`USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS <userkbuildflags>` will also be used.
+
5.4 When userspace programs are actually built
----------------------------------------------

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 45278d508d81..1d0172449355 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -431,11 +431,12 @@ HOSTCC = gcc
HOSTCXX = g++
endif

-export KBUILD_USERCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \
- -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89
-export KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS :=
+KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS := -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \
+ -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -std=gnu89
+KBUILD_USERCFLAGS := $(KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS)
+KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS := $(USERLDFLAGS)

-KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS := $(KBUILD_USERCFLAGS) $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCFLAGS)
+KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS := $(KBUILD_USERHOSTCFLAGS) $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCFLAGS)
KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS := -Wall -O2 $(HOST_LFS_CFLAGS) $(HOSTCXXFLAGS)
KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS := $(HOST_LFS_LDFLAGS) $(HOSTLDFLAGS)
KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS := $(HOST_LFS_LIBS) $(HOSTLDLIBS)
@@ -530,6 +531,7 @@ export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP READELF PAHOLE RESOLVE_BTFIDS LEX YACC AW
export PERL PYTHON3 CHECK CHECKFLAGS MAKE UTS_MACHINE HOSTCXX
export KGZIP KBZIP2 KLZOP LZMA LZ4 XZ ZSTD
export KBUILD_HOSTCXXFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS KBUILD_HOSTLDLIBS LDFLAGS_MODULE
+export KBUILD_USERCFLAGS KBUILD_USERLDFLAGS

export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS KBUILD_LDFLAGS
export KBUILD_CFLAGS CFLAGS_KERNEL CFLAGS_MODULE
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index f2ae41e6717f..164706c38e8b 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ config LLD_VERSION

config CC_CAN_LINK
bool
- default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
- default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag))
+ default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
+ default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag))

config CC_CAN_LINK_STATIC
bool
- default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
- default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)
+ default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m64-flag) -static) if 64BIT
+ default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(CLANG_FLAGS) $(USERCFLAGS) $(USERLDFLAGS) $(m32-flag) -static)

config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
diff --git a/usr/include/Makefile b/usr/include/Makefile
index 1c2ae1368079..0322e567dc1e 100644
--- a/usr/include/Makefile
+++ b/usr/include/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ UAPI_CFLAGS := -std=c90 -Wall -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
# It is here just because CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is tested with -m32 or -m64.
UAPI_CFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))

+# USERCFLAGS might contain sysroot location for CC.
+UAPI_CFLAGS += $(USERCFLAGS)
+
override c_flags = $(UAPI_CFLAGS) -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile) -I$(objtree)/usr/include

# The following are excluded for now because they fail to build.
--
2.25.1