• Masahiro Yamada's avatar
    kbuild: add infrastructure to build userspace programs · 7f3a59db
    Masahiro Yamada authored
    Kbuild supports the infrastructure to build host programs, but there
    was no support to build userspace programs for the target architecture
    (i.e. the same architecture as the kernel).
    
    Sam Ravnborg worked on this in 2014 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/13/154),
    but it was not merged. One problem at that time was, there was no good way
    to know whether $(CC) can link standalone programs. In fact, pre-built
    kernel.org toolchains [1] are often used for building the kernel, but they
    do not provide libc.
    
    Now, we can handle this cleanly because the compiler capability is
    evaluated at the Kconfig time. If $(CC) cannot link standalone programs,
    the relevant options are hidden by 'depends on CC_CAN_LINK'.
    
    The implementation just mimics scripts/Makefile.host
    
    The userspace programs are compiled with the same flags as the host
    programs. In addition, it uses -m32 or -m64 if it is found in
    $(KBUILD_CFLAGS).
    
    This new syntax has two usecases.
    
    - Sample programs
    
      Several userspace programs under samples/ include UAPI headers
      installed in usr/include. Most of them were previously built for
      the host architecture just to use the 'hostprogs' syntax.
    
      However, 'make headers' always works for the target architecture.
      This caused the arch mismatch in cross-compiling. To fix this
      distortion, sample code should be built for the target architecture.
    
    - Bpfilter
    
      net/bpfilter/Makefile compiles bpfilter_umh as the user mode helper,
      and embeds it into the kernel. Currently, it overrides HOSTCC with
      CC to use the 'hostprogs' syntax. This hack should go away.
    
    [1]: https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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