@@ -116,33 +116,8 @@ endif
cflags-y += -ffreestanding
-#
-# We explicitly add the endianness specifier if needed, this allows
-# to compile kernels with a toolchain for the other endianness. We
-# carefully avoid to add it redundantly because gcc 3.3/3.4 complains
-# when fed the toolchain default!
-#
-# Certain gcc versions up to gcc 4.1.1 (probably 4.2-subversion as of
-# 2006-10-10 don't properly change the predefined symbols if -EB / -EL
-# are used, so we kludge that here. A bug has been filed at
-# http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29413.
-#
-# clang doesn't suffer from these issues and our checks against -dumpmachine
-# don't work so well when cross compiling, since without providing --target
-# clang's output will be based upon the build machine. So for clang we simply
-# unconditionally specify -EB or -EL as appropriate.
-#
-ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += -EB
cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += -EL
-else
-undef-all += -UMIPSEB -U_MIPSEB -U__MIPSEB -U__MIPSEB__
-undef-all += -UMIPSEL -U_MIPSEL -U__MIPSEL -U__MIPSEL__
-predef-be += -DMIPSEB -D_MIPSEB -D__MIPSEB -D__MIPSEB__
-predef-le += -DMIPSEL -D_MIPSEL -D__MIPSEL -D__MIPSEL__
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN) += $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.*el-.*' && echo -EB $(undef-all) $(predef-be))
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN) += $(shell $(CC) -dumpmachine |grep -q 'mips.*el-.*' || echo -EL $(undef-all) $(predef-le))
-endif
cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS) += $(call cc-option,-mno-sched-prolog) \
-fno-omit-frame-pointer
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> --- v3 -> v4: * New patch. arch/mips/Makefile | 25 ------------------------- 1 file changed, 25 deletions(-)