Re: [PATCH] ARM: disable FDPIC ABI

From: Vladimir Murzin
Date: Mon Aug 08 2022 - 05:49:42 EST


On 8/1/22 20:17, Ben Wolsieffer wrote:
> When building with an arm-*-uclinuxfdpiceabi toolchain, the FDPIC ABI is
> enabled by default but should not be used to build the kernel.
> Therefore, pass -mno-fdpic if supported by the compiler.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Wolsieffer <Ben.Wolsieffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm/Makefile | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> index c8e3633f5434..88be49b71d40 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ GZFLAGS :=-9
> # Never generate .eh_frame
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm)
>
> +# Disable FDPIC ABI
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-fdpic)
> +
> # This should work on most of the modern platforms
> KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := multi_v7_defconfig
>

Without patch I'm getting

scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: line 52: 312779 Segmentation fault (core dumped) ${ld} ${ldflags} -o ${output} ${wl}--whole-archive ${objs} ${wl}--no-whole-archive ${wl}--start-group ${libs} ${wl}--end-group $@ ${ldlibs}

So, FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@xxxxxxx>

Unless you get any other comments, please, drop it into RMK's patch system [1].

[1] https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/

P.S.
Extra thanks for Buildroot patches, they were handy to build FDPIC toolchain and
test the patch!

Cheers
Vladimir