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[v2,02/21] kbuild: remove CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE support

Message ID 1522128575-5326-3-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
State Superseded
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Series kconfig: move compiler capability tests to Kconfig | expand

Commit Message

Masahiro Yamada March 27, 2018, 5:29 a.m. UTC
Kbuild provides a couple of ways to specify CROSS_COMPILE:

[1] Command line
[2] Environment
[3] arch/*/Makefile (only some architectures)
[4] CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE

[4] is problematic for the compiler capability tests in Kconfig.
CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE allows users to change the compiler prefix from
'make menuconfig', etc.  It means, the compiler options would have
to be all re-calculated everytime CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE is changed.

To avoid complexity and performance issues, I'd like to evaluate
the shell commands statically, i.e. only parsing Kconfig files.

I guess the majority is [1] or [2].  Currently, there are only
4 defconfig files that specify CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE.
  arch/arm/configs/lpc18xx_defconfig
  arch/hexagon/configs/comet_defconfig
  arch/openrisc/configs/or1ksim_defconfig
  arch/openrisc/configs/simple_smp_defconfig

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>

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Changes in v2: None

 Makefile     | 3 ---
 init/Kconfig | 9 ---------
 2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)

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2.7.4

Comments

Kees Cook March 28, 2018, 3:28 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
> Kbuild provides a couple of ways to specify CROSS_COMPILE:

>

> [1] Command line

> [2] Environment

> [3] arch/*/Makefile (only some architectures)

> [4] CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE

>

> [4] is problematic for the compiler capability tests in Kconfig.

> CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE allows users to change the compiler prefix from

> 'make menuconfig', etc.  It means, the compiler options would have

> to be all re-calculated everytime CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE is changed.

>

> To avoid complexity and performance issues, I'd like to evaluate

> the shell commands statically, i.e. only parsing Kconfig files.

>

> I guess the majority is [1] or [2].  Currently, there are only

> 4 defconfig files that specify CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE.

>   arch/arm/configs/lpc18xx_defconfig

>   arch/hexagon/configs/comet_defconfig

>   arch/openrisc/configs/or1ksim_defconfig

>   arch/openrisc/configs/simple_smp_defconfig

>

> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>


Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index c55cf95..5c395ed 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -316,12 +316,9 @@  SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/x86/ -e s/x86_64/x86/ \
 # CROSS_COMPILE can be set on the command line
 # make CROSS_COMPILE=ia64-linux-
 # Alternatively CROSS_COMPILE can be set in the environment.
-# A third alternative is to store a setting in .config so that plain
-# "make" in the configured kernel build directory always uses that.
 # Default value for CROSS_COMPILE is not to prefix executables
 # Note: Some architectures assign CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile
 ARCH		?= $(SUBARCH)
-CROSS_COMPILE	?= $(CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE:"%"=%)
 
 # Architecture as present in compile.h
 UTS_MACHINE 	:= $(ARCH)
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index e37f4b2..df18492 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -54,15 +54,6 @@  config INIT_ENV_ARG_LIMIT
 	  Maximum of each of the number of arguments and environment
 	  variables passed to init from the kernel command line.
 
-
-config CROSS_COMPILE
-	string "Cross-compiler tool prefix"
-	help
-	  Same as running 'make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-' but stored for
-	  default make runs in this kernel build directory.  You don't
-	  need to set this unless you want the configured kernel build
-	  directory to select the cross-compiler automatically.
-
 config COMPILE_TEST
 	bool "Compile also drivers which will not load"
 	depends on !UML