Re: [PATCH-next v3] arm32: enable HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:52, liuyuntao (F) <liuyuntao12@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2024/3/15 20:46, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:22, liuyuntao (F) <liuyuntao12@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> On 2024/3/15 20:13, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 at 13:10, liuyuntao (F) <liuyuntao12@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >>>> On 2024/3/15 19:51, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024, at 12:48, liuyuntao (F) wrote:
> >>>>>> On 2024/3/15 18:46, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >>>>>>> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> >>>>>>>                                        -DEFI_HAVE_MEMCHR -DEFI_HAVE_STRRCHR \
> >>>>>>>                                        -DEFI_HAVE_STRCMP -fno-builtin -fpic \
> >>>>>>>                                        $(call cc-option,-mno-single-pic-base)
> >>>>>>> +cflags-$(CONFIG_ARM)           := $(filter-out -fdata-sections, $(CFLAGS-y))
> >>>>>>>      cflags-$(CONFIG_RISCV)         += -fpic -DNO_ALTERNATIVE -mno-relax
> >>>>>>>      cflags-$(CONFIG_LOONGARCH)     += -fpie
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Another error:
> >>>>>> cannot initialize array of ‘short unsigned int’ from a string literal
> >>>>>> with type array of ‘unsigned int’
> >>>>>>      17 | static const efi_char16_t shim_MokSBState_name[] = L"MokSBStateRT";
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The line sets cflags-y to an empty string.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It probably should have been
> >>>>>
> >>>>> cflags-$(CONFIG_ARM)           := $(filter-out -fdata-sections, $(cflags-y))
> >>>>>
> >>>>> (small cflags instead of CFLAGS).
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> Oops indeed.
> >>>
> >>>> Oh, my mistake, after fixed this bug, still this error:
> >>>>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.efi_loglevel' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/printk.stub.o' being placed in section `data.efi_loglevel'
> >>>>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.screen_info_guid' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/screen_info.stub.o' being placed in section `.data.screen_info_guid'
> >>>>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.cpu_state_guid' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm32-stub.stub.o' being placed in section `.data.cpu_state_guid'
> >>>>> arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: warning: orphan section `.data.efi_nokaslr' from `drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/efi-stub-helper.stub.o' being placed in section `.data.efi_nokaslr'
> >>>>
> >>>> The -fdata-sections option is present in the KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL
> >>>> variable; altering cflags-y only affect the KBUILD_CFLAGS variable.
> >>>> It seems that the -fdata-sections option needs to be removed from the
> >>>> KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL variable.
> >>>
> >>> Indeed.
> >>>
> >>> So
> >>>
> >>> KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL := $(filter-out -fdata-sections,$(KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL))
> >>>
> >>> (assuming I got it right this time without build testing)
> >>
> >> Um, it not worked,too, same error.
> >
> > Aren't you missing a 'L' ?
> >
> >>> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> >>> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/Makefile
> >>> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_ARM)          += -DEFI_HAVE_STRLEN -DEFI_HAVE_STRNLEN \
> >>>                                     -DEFI_HAVE_MEMCHR -DEFI_HAVE_STRRCHR \
> >>>
> >
> >>> ifdef CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
> >>> KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
> >>> KBUILD_RUSTFLAGS_KERNEL += -Zfunction-sections=y
> >>> LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --gc-sections
> >>> endif
> >>
> >>                                    -DEFI_HAVE_STRCMP -fno-builtin -fpic \
> >>>                                     $(call cc-option,-mno-single-pic-base)
> >>> +KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNE            := $(filter-out -fdata-sections, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNE))
> >>>   cflags-$(CONFIG_RISCV)         += -fpic -DNO_ALTERNATIVE -mno-relax
> >>>   cflags-$(CONFIG_LOONGARCH)     += -fpie
> >>
> >>
> Sorry, I was too careless.
> How about reset KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL?
>

No, that is not the solution.

Either avoid setting -fdata-sections altogether, or filter it out.


> > +# KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL is is set by CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION,
> > +# not need here, just reset it.
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL :=
> > +
> >  # non-x86 reuses KBUILD_CFLAGS, x86 does not
> >  cflags-y                       := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS)
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