clang versions previous to 8 do not support -mcmodel=tiny. Add a check to the vDSO Makefile for arm64 to remove the flag when these versions of the compiler are detected.
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <[email protected]> Reported-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]> Tested-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]> --- arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile index ec81d28aeb5d..5154f50aff2d 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ else CFLAGS_vgettimeofday.o = -O2 -mcmodel=tiny -include $(c-gettimeofday-y) endif +# Clang versions less than 8 do not support -mcmodel=tiny +ifeq ($(shell test $(CONFIG_CLANG_VERSION) -lt 80000; echo $$?),0) +CFLAGS_REMOVE_vgettimeofday.o += -mcmodel=tiny +endif + # Disable gcov profiling for VDSO code GCOV_PROFILE := n -- 2.22.0
