[OE-core] [PATCH 02/16] kernel.bbclass: fix buildpath QA issue

Bruce Ashfield bruce.ashfield at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 14:28:59 UTC 2016


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Hongxu Jia <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
wrote:

> On 03/23/2016 12:49 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/22/16 7:21 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:12 AM, Hongxu Jia <
>> <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>hongxu.jia at windriver.com
>> > <mailto: <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>hongxu.jia at windriver.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Since CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS has been unset, variable DEBUG_FLAGS
>> could
>> >     not been passed to compiler, so we explicitly add DEBUG_FLAGS to CC
>> to
>> >     replace build path with target path.
>> >
>> >
>> > Can you be more explicit here ? What is typically contained in
>> DEBUG_FLAGS ? The
>> > kernel builds its own compiler line and flags, so anything you are
>> setting from this
>> > environment, should not be leaking into the kernel build.
>> >
>> > .. which leaves me wondering, what exactly is in DEBUG_FLAGS, and how
>> is it
>> > actually fixing the QA issue ?
>>
>> The specific debug flag in question is being added to remap the on-disk
>> path to
>> the path we want the items to look like from a debugging point of view.
>>
>> The typical format of DEBUG_FLAGS is something like:
>>
>> DEBUG_FLAGS ?= "-g -feliminate-unused-debug-types"
>>
>> This was recently updated to include the remapping:
>>
>>  DEBUG_FLAGS ?= "-g -feliminate-unused-debug-types \
>>                  -fdebug-prefix-map=${WORKDIR}=/usr/src/debug \
>>                  -fdebug-prefix-map=${STAGING_DIR_NATIVE}= \
>>                  -fdebug-prefix-map=${STAGING_DIR_HOST}= \
>>
>> The idea is the WORKDIR is replaced with '/usr/src/debug' inside of the
>> binary
>> and any debug symbol references.  This makes it much easier for the
>> system to
>> work with supplied debug sources/symbols.
>>
>> I'm not sure you want to use DEBUG_FLAGS since anything can be put in
>> there....
>>
>> Application space code should always use the DEBUG_FLAGS, or I think it's
>> likely
>> a bug.
>>
>> The kernel though should probably define it's own flag(s).  Most likely
>> you'll
>> want something simple like:
>>
>> -fdebug-prefix-map=${WORKDIR}=/usr/src/debug
>>
>
>
> I can see that.
>
> What outputs of the kernel build need this remapping ? The userspace parts
> ?
> Something else ?
>
>
> While building kernel, there are many build paths which caused by macro
> __FILE__.
> Once you invoke marco WARN_ON in kernel/module, there will be a __FILE__
> used.
> ....
> #define WARN_ON(condition) ({                                           \
>         int __ret_warn_on = !!(condition);                              \
>         if (unlikely(__ret_warn_on))                                    \
>                 __WARN();                                               \
>         unlikely(__ret_warn_on);                                        \
> })
>
> #define __WARN()                warn_slowpath_null(__FILE__, __LINE__)
> ....
>


Aha. Honestly, I've always gotten different paths from the kernel debug
info (or many
applications) via __FILE__, and never considered it much of a problem to go
and
find the source file :) .. but I digress.



>
> That's why I add -fdebug-prefix-map to kernel build. I original added a
> new option
> -ffile-prefix-map for gcc to remap __FILE__, and enhance -fdebug-prefix-map
> to replace -ffile-prefix-map to compat with external toolchain.
>
> The point is that we patch the kernel build, or make a specific Kconfig
> option, or
> something similar to that, versus leaking our build flags into the kernel
> build or
> "bad things can happen".
>
>
> If the leaking idea is bad, would you like to accept '-fdebug-prefix-map'
> as
> kernel's private?
>

Either you patch the kernel, and make it a Kconfig option for the mapping,
or we pass it
in as an intrinsic part of the CC definition, or some variant of those.

Bruce


>
> Or suggestions else to fix the build path in kernel?
>
> //Hongxu
>
>
> So I'm sure the solution in the build is the same, but passing flags via a
> general
> mechanism like I saw in the patch is generally not a good idea.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>>
>> Then all of the internal references to WORKDIR will be replaced with
>> '/usr/src/debug' which cross gdb can 'map' or on-target will actually
>> look in
>> that location.  (A corresponding '-dbg' package should be provided with
>> the
>> matching compilation sources at the local specified.)
>>
>> --Mark
>>
>> > Bruce
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     [YOCTO #7058]
>> >
>> >     Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia < <hongxu.jia at windriver.com>
>> hongxu.jia at windriver.com
>> >     <mailto:hongxu.jia at windriver.com>>
>> >     ---
>> >      meta/classes/kernel.bbclass | 4 ++--
>> >      1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> >     diff --git a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> >     index c3eab50..d357ccf 100644
>> >     --- a/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> >     +++ b/meta/classes/kernel.bbclass
>> >     @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ kernel_do_compile() {
>> >                     copy_initramfs
>> >
>> >
>>  use_alternate_initrd=CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=${B}/usr/${INITRAMFS_IMAGE}-${MACHINE}.cpio
>> >             fi
>> >     -       oe_runmake ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE}
>> ${KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE}
>> >     CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}
>> $use_alternate_initrd
>> >     +       oe_runmake ${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE}
>> ${KERNEL_ALT_IMAGETYPE}
>> >     CC="${KERNEL_CC} ${DEBUG_FLAGS}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}"
>> ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}
>> >     $use_alternate_initrd
>> >             if test "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE}.gz" =
>> "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE}"; then
>> >                     gzip -9c < "${KERNEL_IMAGETYPE_FOR_MAKE}" >
>> "${KERNEL_OUTPUT}"
>> >             fi
>> >     @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ kernel_do_compile() {
>> >      do_compile_kernelmodules() {
>> >             unset CFLAGS CPPFLAGS CXXFLAGS LDFLAGS MACHINE
>> >             if (grep -q -i -e '^CONFIG_MODULES=y$' ${B}/.config); then
>> >     -               oe_runmake -C ${B} ${PARALLEL_MAKE} modules
>> >     CC="${KERNEL_CC}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}
>> >     +               oe_runmake -C ${B} ${PARALLEL_MAKE} modules
>> CC="${KERNEL_CC}
>> >     ${DEBUG_FLAGS}" LD="${KERNEL_LD}" ${KERNEL_EXTRA_ARGS}
>> >
>> >                     # Module.symvers gets updated during the
>> >                     # building of the kernel modules. We need to
>> >     --
>> >     1.9.1
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await
>> thee at its
>> > end"
>>
>>
>
>
> --
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>
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>


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