[PATCH v3] xen/arm32: avoid EFI stub wchar_t size linker warning

Wei Chen posted 1 patch 1 year, 9 months ago
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xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
[PATCH v3] xen/arm32: avoid EFI stub wchar_t size linker warning
Posted by Wei Chen 1 year, 9 months ago
Xen uses "-fshort-wchar" in CFLAGS for EFI common code. Arm32
is using stub.c of EFI common code for EFI stub functions. But
"-fshort-wchar" CFLAG will cause a warning when build stub.c
for Arm32:
"arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: warning: arch/arm/efi/built_in.o uses
2-byte wchar_t yet the output is to use 4-byte wchar_t; use of
wchar_t values across objects may fail"

This is because the "-fshort-wchar" flag causes GCC to generate
code that is not binary compatible with code generated without
that flag. Why this warning hasn't been triggered in Arm64 is
because Arm64 does not use wchar type directly in any code for
parameters, variables and return values. And in EFI code, wchar
has been replaced by CHAR16 (the UEFI "abstraction" of wchar_t).
CHAR16 has been specified as unsigned short type in typedef, the
"-fshort-wchar" flag will not affect CHAR16. So Arm64 object
files are exactly the same with "-fshort-wchar" and without
"-fshort-wchar".

We are also not using wchar in Arm32 codes, but Arm32 will embed
ABI information in ".ARM.attributes" section. This section stores
some object file attributes, like ABI version, CPU arch and etc.
And wchar size is described in this section by "Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t"
too. Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t is 2 for object files with "-fshort-wchar",
but for object files without "-fshort-wchar" is 4. Arm32 GCC
ld will check this tag, and throw above warning when it finds
the object files have different Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t values.

Xen need to keep "-fshort-wchar" in EFI code to force wchar to use
short integers (2 bytes) instead of integers (4 bytes), but this is
unnecessary for code out of EFI. So in this patch, we add
"-fno-short-wchar" to override "-fshort-wchar" for Arm architectures
without EFI enabled to remove above warning."

Reported-and-Suggested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Tested-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Chen <wei.chen@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
---
v2 -> v1:
1. Adjust title to add arm32 as prefix.
2. Update description to remove gnu-efi.
v1 -> v2:
1. Use CONFIG_ARM_EFI to replace CONFIG_ARM_32 to gate
   "-fno-short-whar".
---
 xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile b/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile
index dffe72e589..bd954a3b2d 100644
--- a/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile
+++ b/xen/arch/arm/efi/Makefile
@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@ else
 # will not be cleaned in "make clean".
 EFIOBJ-y += stub.o
 obj-y += stub.o
+
+$(obj)/stub.o: CFLAGS-y += -fno-short-wchar
+
 endif
-- 
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