[PATCH 1/1] powerpc: use __clang__ instead of CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG

[Michal Suchánek]

Hello,

how does this happen?

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:48:01PM +0800, Shung-Hsi Yu wrote:
> Due to include chain (below), powerpc's asm-compat.h is part of UAPI,
> thus it should use the __clang__ macro to directly detect whether Clang
> is used rather then relying on the kernel config setting. The later is
> unreliable because the userspace tools that uses UAPI may be compile
> with a different compiler than the one used for the kernel, leading to
> incorrect constrain selection (see link for an example of such).
> 
>   include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h

There is arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h

and if the installed header is used this is what should be included.

That does no include other asm headers.

Thanks

Michal

>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/atomic.h
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h
> 
> Link: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/5172
> Signed-off-by: Shung-Hsi Yu <shung-hsi.yu at suse.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h
> index f48e644900a2..34f8740909a9 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-compat.h
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
>  #define STDX_BE	stringify_in_c(stdbrx)
>  #endif
>  
> -#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
> +#ifdef __clang__
>  #define DS_FORM_CONSTRAINT "Z<>"
>  #else
>  #define DS_FORM_CONSTRAINT "YZ<>"
> -- 
> 2.48.1
>