This was all done to work around a GCC bug that has been fixed after
4.2. The kernel requires GCC 4.6 or newer so remove all of these hacks
and just use the traditional flags.
$ mips64-linux-gcc --version | head -n1
mips64-linux-gcc (GCC) 4.6.3
$ mips64-linux-gcc -EB -dM -E -C -x c /dev/null | grep MIPSE
#define MIPSEB 1
#define __MIPSEB__ 1
#define _MIPSEB 1
#define __MIPSEB 1
$ mips64-linux-gcc -EL -dM -E -C -x c /dev/null | grep MIPSE
#define __MIPSEL__ 1
#define MIPSEL 1
#define _MIPSEL 1
#define __MIPSEL 1
This is necessary when converting the MIPS VDSO to use $(LD) instead of
$(CC) to link because the OUTPUT_FORMAT is defaulted to little endian
and only flips to big endian when '-EB' is set on the command line.
There is no issue currently because the compiler explicitly passes
'-EB' or '-EL' to the linker regardless of whether or not it was
provided by the user. Passing '-v' to VDSO_LDFLAGS shows:
<gcc_prefix>/libexec/gcc/mips64-linux/9.3.0/collect2 ... -EB ...
even though '-EB' is nowhere to be found in KBUILD_CFLAGS. The VDSO
Makefile already supports getting '-EB' or '-EL' from KBUILD_CFLAGS
through a filter directive but '-EB' or '-EL' is not always present.
If we do not do this, we will see the following error when compiling
for big endian:
$ make -j$(nproc) ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mips64-linux- \
64r2el_defconfig arch/mips/vdso/
...
mips64-linux-ld: arch/mips/vdso/elf.o: compiled for a big endian system
and target is little endian
mips64-linux-ld: arch/mips/vdso/elf.o: endianness incompatible with that
of the selected emulation
mips64-linux-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file
arch/mips/vdso/elf.o
...
Remove this legacy hack and just use '-EB' and '-EL' unconditionally.
Reported-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
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