Commit 76426e23 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada
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kbuild: add dummy toolchains to enable all cc-option etc. in Kconfig

Staring v4.18, Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities, and hides CONFIG
options your compiler does not support. This works well if you configure
and build the kernel on the same host machine.

It is inconvenient if you prepare the .config that is carried to a
different build environment (typically this happens when you package
the kernel for distros) because using a different compiler potentially
produces different CONFIG options than the real build environment.
So, you probably want to make as many options visible as possible.
In other words, you need to create a super-set of CONFIG options that
cover any build environment. If some of the CONFIG options turned out
to be unsupported on the build machine, they are automatically disabled
by the nature of Kconfig.

However, it is not feasible to get a full-featured compiler for every
arch.

This issue was discussed here:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/9/620



Other than distros, savedefconfig is also a problem. Some arch sub-systems
periodically resync defconfig files. If you use a less-capable compiler
for savedefconfig, options that do not meet 'depends on $(cc-option,...)'
will be forcibly disabled. So, 'make defconfig && make savedefconfig'
may silently change the behavior.

This commit adds a set of dummy toolchains that pretend to support any
feature.

Most of compiler features are tested by cc-option, which simply checks
the exit code of $(CC). The dummy tools are shell scripts that always
exit with 0. So, $(cc-option, ...) is evaluated as 'y'.

There are more complicated checks such as:

  scripts/gcc-x86_{32,64}-has-stack-protector.sh
  scripts/gcc-plugin.sh
  scripts/tools-support-relr.sh

scripts/dummy-tools/gcc passes all checks.

From the top directory of the source tree, you can do:

   $ make CROSS_COMPILE=scripts/dummy-tools/ oldconfig

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarJeremy Cline <jcline@redhat.com>
parent 7273ad2b
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#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
#
# Staring v4.18, Kconfig evaluates compiler capabilities, and hides CONFIG
# options your compiler does not support. This works well if you configure and
# build the kernel on the same host machine.
#
# It is inconvenient if you prepare the .config that is carried to a different
# build environment (typically this happens when you package the kernel for
# distros) because using a different compiler potentially produces different
# CONFIG options than the real build environment. So, you probably want to make
# as many options visible as possible. In other words, you need to create a
# super-set of CONFIG options that cover any build environment. If some of the
# CONFIG options turned out to be unsupported on the build machine, they are
# automatically disabled by the nature of Kconfig.
#
# However, it is not feasible to get a full-featured compiler for every arch.
# Hence these dummy toolchains to make all compiler tests pass.
#
# Usage:
#
# From the top directory of the source tree, run
#
#   $ make CROSS_COMPILE=scripts/dummy-tools/ oldconfig
#
# Most of compiler features are tested by cc-option, which simply checks the
# exit code of $(CC). This script does nothing and just exits with 0 in most
# cases. So, $(cc-option, ...) is evaluated as 'y'.
#
# This scripts caters to more checks; handle --version and pre-process __GNUC__
# etc. to pretend to be GCC, and also do right things to satisfy some scripts.

# Check if the first parameter appears in the rest. Succeeds if found.
# This helper is useful if a particular option was passed to this script.
# Typically used like this:
#   arg_contain <word-you-are-searching-for> "$@"
arg_contain ()
{
	search="$1"
	shift

	while [ $# -gt 0 ]
	do
		if [ "$search" = "$1" ]; then
			return 0
		fi
		shift
	done

	return 1
}

# To set CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
if arg_contain --version "$@"; then
	echo "gcc (scripts/dummy-tools/gcc)"
	exit 0
fi

if arg_contain -E "$@"; then
	# For scripts/gcc-version.sh; This emulates GCC 20.0.0
	if arg_contain - "$@"; then
		sed 's/^__GNUC__$/20/; s/^__GNUC_MINOR__$/0/; s/^__GNUC_PATCHLEVEL__$/0/'
		exit 0
	else
		echo "no input files" >&2
		exit 1
	fi
fi

if arg_contain -S "$@"; then
	# For scripts/gcc-x86-*-has-stack-protector.sh
	if arg_contain -fstack-protector "$@"; then
		echo "%gs"
		exit 0
	fi
fi

# For scripts/gcc-plugin.sh
if arg_contain -print-file-name=plugin "$@"; then
	plugin_dir=$(mktemp -d)

	sed -n 's/.*#include "\(.*\)"/\1/p' $(dirname $0)/../gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h |
	while read header
	do
		mkdir -p $plugin_dir/include/$(dirname $header)
		touch $plugin_dir/include/$header
	done

	echo $plugin_dir
	exit 0
fi

scripts/dummy-tools/ld

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#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

# Dummy script that always succeeds.

# Check if the first parameter appears in the rest. Succeeds if found.
# This helper is useful if a particular option was passed to this script.
# Typically used like this:
#   arg_contain <word-you-are-searching-for> "$@"
arg_contain ()
{
	search="$1"
	shift

	while [ $# -gt 0 ]
	do
		if [ "$search" = "$1" ]; then
			return 0
		fi
		shift
	done

	return 1
}

if arg_contain --version "$@" || arg_contain -v "$@"; then
	progname=$(basename $0)
	echo "GNU $progname (scripts/dummy-tools/$progname) 2.50"
	exit 0
fi

scripts/dummy-tools/nm

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