On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 08:31:19PM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> Commit d0266046ad54 ("x86: Remove FAST_FEATURE_TESTS")
> removed X86_FAST_FEATURE_TESTS and make macro static_cpu_has() always
> use __always_inline function _static_cpu_has() funciton.
> The static_cpu_has() uses gcc feature asm goto construct,
> which is not supported by clang.
>
> Issues
> ======
>
> Currently, for BPF programs written in C, the only widely-supported
> compiler is clang. Because of clang lacking support
> of asm goto construct, if you try to compile
> bpf programs under samples/bpf/,
> $ make -j20 && make headers_install && make samples/bpf/
> you will see a lot of failures like below:
>
> clang -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/7/include \
> -I/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/arch/x86/include \
> -I./arch/x86/include/generated -I/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/include \
> -I./include -I/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/arch/x86/include/uapi \
> -I./arch/x86/include/generated/uapi \
> -I/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi \
> -include /home/yhs/work/bpf-next/include/linux/kconfig.h
> -Isamples/bpf \
> -I/home/yhs/work/bpf-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ \
> -D__KERNEL__ -Wno-unused-value -Wno-pointer-sign \
> -D__TARGET_ARCH_x86 -Wno-compare-distinct-pointer-types \
> -Wno-gnu-variable-sized-type-not-at-end \
> -Wno-address-of-packed-member -Wno-tautological-compare \
> -Wno-unknown-warning-option \
> -O2 -emit-llvm -c
> /home/yhs/work/bpf-next/samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu_kern.c \
> -o -| llc -march=bpf -filetype=obj -o
> samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu_kern.o
> In file included from
> /home/yhs/work/bpf-next/samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu_kern.c:10:
This is not the kernel's problem.
Fix the samples to build successfully like the rest of the things in
tools/ use kernel machinery and undefine/redefine stuff so that it
builds. For example, tools/include/asm/alternative-asm.h redefines two
macros. So do something along those lines.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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