Hi Vincenzo, I've been running into a few issues with the COMPAT vDSO. Please could you have a look?
If I do the following: $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- defconfig [...] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- menuconfig [set CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO="arm-linux-gnueabihf-"] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- Then I see the following warning: arch/arm64/Makefile:62: CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT not defined or empty, the compat vDSO will not be built even though the compat vDSO *has* been built: $ file arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.so arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/vdso.so: ELF 32-bit LSB pie executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=c67f6c786f2d2d6f86c71f708595594aa25247f6, stripped However, I also get some warnings because arm64 headers are being included in the compat vDSO build: In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/thread_info.h:17:0, from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:38, from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/preempt.h:5, from ./include/linux/preempt.h:78, from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51, from ./include/linux/seqlock.h:36, from ./include/linux/time.h:6, from /usr/local/google/home/willdeacon/work/linux/lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c:7, from <command-line>:0: ./arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h: In function ‘__tag_set’: ./arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h:233:15: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast] u64 __addr = (u64)addr & ~__tag_shifted(0xff); ^ In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h:8:0, from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/processor.h:34, from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h:118, from ./include/linux/elf.h:5, from ./include/linux/elfnote.h:62, from arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/note.c:11: ./arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h: In function ‘__tag_set’: ./arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h:233:15: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast] u64 __addr = (u64)addr & ~__tag_shifted(0xff); ^ Worse, if your compat binutils isn't up-to-date, you'll actually run into a build failure: /tmp/ccFCrjUg.s:80: Error: invalid barrier type -- `dmb ishld' /tmp/ccFCrjUg.s:124: Error: invalid barrier type -- `dmb ishld' There also appears to be a problem getting the toolchain prefix from Kconfig. If, for example, I do: $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- defconfig [...] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- menuconfig [set CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO="vincenzo"] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- arch/arm64/Makefile:64: *** vincenzogcc not found, check CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT. Stop. $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- menuconfig [set CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO="arm-linux-gnueabihf-"] $ make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- arch/arm64/Makefile:64: *** vincenzogcc not found, check CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT. Stop. $ grep CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO .config CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT_VDSO="arm-linux-gnueabihf-" which is irritating, because it seems to force a 'mrproper' if you don't get the prefix right first time. Cheers, Will