On 5/28/24 2:16 AM, John Hubbard wrote:
> When building with clang, via:
> 
>     make LLVM=1 -C tools/testing/selftests
> 
> ...there are several warnings, and an error. This fixes all of those and
> allows these tests to run and pass.
> 
> 1. Fix linker error (undefined reference to memcpy) by providing a local
>    version of memcpy.
> 
> 2. clang complains about using this form:
> 
>     if (g = h & 0xf0000000)
> 
> ...so factor out the assignment into a separate step.
> 
> 3. The code is passing a signed const char* to elf_hash(), which expects
>    a const unsigned char *. There are several callers, so fix this at
>    the source by allowing the function to accept a signed argument, and
>    then converting to unsigned operations, once inside the function.
> 
> 4. clang doesn't have __attribute__((externally_visible)) and generates
>    a warning to that effect. Fortunately, gcc 12 and gcc 13 do not seem
>    to require that attribute in order to build, run and pass tests here,
>    so remove it.
Just checked with GCC 5.1, it builds fine without any errors.

> 
> [1] 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240329-selftests-libmk-llvm-rfc-v1-1-2f9ed7d1c...@valentinobst.de/
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <[email protected]>
LGTM
Reviewed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <[email protected]>

> ---
> 
> Changes since the first version:
> 
> 1) Rebased onto Linux 6.10-rc1
> 
> thanks,
> John Hubbard
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c      | 16 +++++++++++-----
>  .../selftests/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c  | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c
> index 413f75620a35..4ae417372e9e 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/parse_vdso.c
> @@ -55,14 +55,20 @@ static struct vdso_info
>       ELF(Verdef) *verdef;
>  } vdso_info;
>  
> -/* Straight from the ELF specification. */
> -static unsigned long elf_hash(const unsigned char *name)
> +/*
> + * Straight from the ELF specification...and then tweaked slightly, in order 
> to
> + * avoid a few clang warnings.
> + */
> +static unsigned long elf_hash(const char *name)
>  {
>       unsigned long h = 0, g;
> -     while (*name)
> +     const unsigned char *uch_name = (const unsigned char *)name;
> +
> +     while (*uch_name)
>       {
> -             h = (h << 4) + *name++;
> -             if (g = h & 0xf0000000)
> +             h = (h << 4) + *uch_name++;
> +             g = h & 0xf0000000;
> +             if (g)
>                       h ^= g >> 24;
>               h &= ~g;
>       }
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c
> index 8a44ff973ee1..27f6fdf11969 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>  
>  #include "parse_vdso.h"
>  
> -/* We need a libc functions... */
> +/* We need some libc functions... */
>  int strcmp(const char *a, const char *b)
>  {
>       /* This implementation is buggy: it never returns -1. */
> @@ -34,6 +34,20 @@ int strcmp(const char *a, const char *b)
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * The clang build needs this, although gcc does not.
> + * Stolen from lib/string.c.
> + */
> +void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count)
> +{
> +     char *tmp = dest;
> +     const char *s = src;
> +
> +     while (count--)
> +             *tmp++ = *s++;
> +     return dest;
> +}
> +
>  /* ...and two syscalls.  This is x86-specific. */
>  static inline long x86_syscall3(long nr, long a0, long a1, long a2)
>  {
> @@ -70,7 +84,7 @@ void to_base10(char *lastdig, time_t n)
>       }
>  }
>  
> -__attribute__((externally_visible)) void c_main(void **stack)
> +void c_main(void **stack)
>  {
>       /* Parse the stack */
>       long argc = (long)*stack;
> 
> base-commit: 2bfcfd584ff5ccc8bb7acde19b42570414bf880b

-- 
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum

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