On 18/11/15 01:20, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> wrote:
>> Am 02.11.2015 um 17:16 schrieb Anton Ivanov:
>>> Background: UML is using an obsolete itimer call for
>>> all timers and "polls" for kernel space timer firing
>>> in its userspace portion resulting in a long list
>>> of bugs and incorrect behaviour(s). It also uses
>>> ITIMER_VIRTUAL for its timer which results in the
>>> timer being dependent on it running and the cpu
>>> load.
>>>
>>> This patch fixes this by moving to posix high resolution
>>> timers firing off CLOCK_MONOTONIC and relaying the timer
>>> correctly to the UML userspace.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <tho...@m3y3r.de>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov <aiva...@brocade.com>
>> Applied!
> Looks like this broke ARCH=um SUBARCH=x86-64 builds on (at least)
> David Miller's net-next tree. On ubuntu 14.04, gcc (Ubuntu
> 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04) 4.8.4, I get:
>
> arch/um/os-Linux/built-in.o: In function `os_timer_create':
> /android/kernel/android/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c:51: undefined
> reference to `timer_create'
> arch/um/os-Linux/built-in.o: In function `os_timer_set_interval':
> /android/kernel/android/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c:84: undefined
> reference to `timer_settime'
> arch/um/os-Linux/built-in.o: In function `os_timer_remain':
> /android/kernel/android/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c:109: undefined
> reference to `timer_gettime'
> arch/um/os-Linux/built-in.o: In function `os_timer_one_shot':
> /android/kernel/android/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c:132: undefined
> reference to `timer_settime'
> arch/um/os-Linux/built-in.o: In function `os_timer_disable':
> /android/kernel/android/arch/um/os-Linux/time.c:145: undefined
> reference to `timer_settime'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> The command being run is this:
>
> + gcc -Wl,-rpath,/lib64 -m64 -Wl,-rpath,/lib -Wl,--wrap,malloc
> -Wl,--wrap,free -Wl,--wrap,calloc -Wl,-m -Wl,elf_x86_64 -lrt -o
> .tmp_vmlinux1 -Wl,-T,./arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds init/built-in.o
> -Wl,--start-group usr/built-in.o arch/um/kernel/built-in.o
> arch/um/drivers/built-in.o arch/um/os-Linux/built-in.o
> arch/x86/crypto/built-in.o arch/x86/um/built-in.o kernel/built-in.o
> certs/built-in.o mm/built-in.o fs/built-in.o ipc/built-in.o
> security/built-in.o crypto/built-in.o block/built-in.o lib/lib.a
> lib/built-in.o drivers/built-in.o sound/built-in.o firmware/built-in.o
> net/built-in.o virt/built-in.o -Wl,--end-group -lutil
>
> The following patch results in a working kernel, but I have no idea if
> it's correct. Thoughts?
It is.
You need -lrt to link in HR timers. However, the original patch should
add that to the library list. I need to understand why it does not in
the dm tree.
A.
>
> diff --git a/arch/um/Makefile b/arch/um/Makefile
> index 25ed409..e3abe6f 100644
> --- a/arch/um/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/um/Makefile
> @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ export LDS_ELF_FORMAT := $(ELF_FORMAT)
> # The wrappers will select whether using "malloc" or the kernel allocator.
> LINK_WRAPS = -Wl,--wrap,malloc -Wl,--wrap,free -Wl,--wrap,calloc
>
> -LD_FLAGS_CMDLINE = $(foreach opt,$(LDFLAGS),-Wl,$(opt)) -lrt
> +LD_FLAGS_CMDLINE = $(foreach opt,$(LDFLAGS),-Wl,$(opt))
>
> # Used by link-vmlinux.sh which has special support for um link
> export CFLAGS_vmlinux := $(LINK-y) $(LINK_WRAPS) $(LD_FLAGS_CMDLINE)
> diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> index 1a10d8a..dacf71a 100755
> --- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> +++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ vmlinux_link()
> -Wl,--start-group
> \
> ${KBUILD_VMLINUX_MAIN}
> \
> -Wl,--end-group
> \
> - -lutil ${1}
> + -lutil -lrt ${1}
> rm -f linux
> fi
> }
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