Messages in this thread | | | From | Ricardo Cañuelo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] Makefile.compiler: replace cc-ifversion with compiler-specific macros | Date | Mon, 22 May 2023 12:09:34 +0200 |
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On vie, may 19 2023 at 08:57:24, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote: > It could be; if the link order was changed, it's possible that this > target may be hitting something along the lines of: > https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/ctors#static-init-order i.e. the "static > initialization order fiasco" > > I'm struggling to think of how this appears in C codebases, but I > swear years ago I had a discussion with GKH (maybe?) about this. I > think I was playing with converting Kbuild to use Ninja rather than > Make; the resulting kernel image wouldn't boot because I had modified > the order the object files were linked in. If you were to randomly > shuffle the object files in the kernel, I recall some hazard that may > prevent boot.
I thought that was specifically a C++ problem? But then again, the kernel docs explicitly say that the ordering of obj-y goals in kbuild is significant in some instances [1]:
--- 3.2 Built-in object goals - obj-y
[...]
Link order is significant, because certain functions (module_init() / __initcall) will be called during boot in the order they appear. So keep in mind that changing the link order may e.g. change the order in which your SCSI controllers are detected, and thus your disks are renumbered.
We'll dig deeper into this. Thanks for your insight.
Cheers, Ricardo
[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
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