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SubjectRe: "arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation" breaks clang build
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Hi Qian,

...

>
> but clang 7.0 is still use in many distros by default, so maybe this commit can
> be fixed by adding a conditional check to use "small" if clang version < 8.0.
>

Could you please verify that the patch below works for you?

Thanks,
Vincenzo

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From 0546f3bbea910cd26df8c2ff9ed1a59945bb1bec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:49:37 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] arm64: vdso: Fix compilation with clang < 8

clang versions previous to 8 do not support -mcmodel=tiny.

Add a check to the vDSO Makefile for arm64 to remove the flag when these
versions of the compiler are detected.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index ec81d28aeb5d..c11cbf71073f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ else
CFLAGS_vgettimeofday.o = -O2 -mcmodel=tiny -include $(c-gettimeofday-y)
endif

+# Clang versions less than 8 do not support -mcmodel=tiny
+ifeq ($(shell test $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) -lt 80000; echo $$?),0)
+CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o = -mcmodel=tiny
+endif
+
# Disable gcov profiling for VDSO code
GCOV_PROFILE := n

--
2.22.0
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