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SubjectRe: [tip:x86/kbuild] x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in 'make oldconfig'
On 09/04/2009 11:31 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/04/2009 08:33 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> x86: Don't silently override CONFIG_64BIT in 'make oldconfig'
>>>>
>>>> -tip testing found that this commit broke the UML build:
>>>>
>>>> /home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile:52:
>>>> /home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile-x86: No such file or directory
>>>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
>>>> `/home/mingo/tip/arch/um/Makefile-x86'. Stop.
>>>> make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
>>>
>>> Hm, doesn't that mean that UML has always been broken for ARCH=x86?
>>
>> Quite possible. ARCH=x86 hasn't exactly been widely used.
>
> Note, i used 'make ARCH=um' so this commit cannot be pushed upwards
> until this problem is fixed. It could very well be some missing
> changes on the UML side.
>

Okay, the problem is the following: UM treats i386 and x86-64 as
separate architectures, and it gets very unhappy with SUBARCH=x86. A
trivial attempt to fix it:

diff --git a/arch/um/Makefile b/arch/um/Makefile
index 0728def..b1cc9cf 100644
--- a/arch/um/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/Makefile
@@ -12,6 +12,17 @@ OS := $(shell uname -s)
# features.
SHELL := /bin/bash

+#
+# i386 and x86_64 are separate architectures to the UM build.
+#
+ifeq ($(SUBARCH),x86)
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_64BIT),y)
+SUBARCH := x86_64
+else
+SUBARCH := i386
+endif
+endif
+
filechk_gen_header = $<

core-y += $(ARCH_DIR)/kernel/ \
... didn't fix it, as "make defconfig" promptly made a 32-bit
configuration on my 64-bit system, and the build failed.

The "obvious" change of allowing SUBARCH to take values like i386 and
x86_64 is also wrong (and possibly have a DEFAULT_ARCH which can be
different than SUBARCH), because we have several instances of:
ifneq ($(SUBARCH),$(ARCH))

... in the build tree, and even have ugliness like:

[scripts/tags.h]
# Support um (which uses SUBARCH)
if [ "${ARCH}" = "um" ]; then
if [ "$SUBARCH" = "i386" ]; then
archinclude=x86
elif [ "$SUBARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
archinclude=x86
else
archinclude=${SUBARCH}
fi
fi
Anyway... it sounds like we need to drop this commit for now and
re-merge it when there is a fix for UM.

Jeff, Sam, I would appreciate your suggestions as how best to fix this
kind of stuff...

-hpa


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