[PATCH v2 03/10] kbuild: allow architectures to override CC_CAN_LINK

[Thomas Weißschuh]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 08:56:12PM +0100, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 03:05:18PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > The generic test for CC_CAN_LINK assumes that all architectures use -m32
> > and -m64 to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit compilation. This is overly
> > simplistic. Architectures may use other flags (-mabi, -m31, etc.) or may
> > also require byte order handling (-mlittle-endian, -EL). Expressing all
> > of the different possibilities will be very complicated and brittle.
> > Instead allow architectures to supply their own logic which will be
> > easy to understand and evolve.
> > 
> > Both the boolean ARCH_HAS_CC_CAN_LINK and the string ARCH_USERFLAGS need
> > to be implemented as kconfig does not allow the reuse of string options.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh at linutronix.de>
> > ---
> >  Makefile     | 13 +++++++++++--
> >  init/Kconfig |  4 ++++
> >  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> > index 17cfa11ca7163aa3297101ceb3c9e85f4878f12d..26e5bca534e27034c355939bca4c90db435ecdbd 100644
> > --- a/Makefile
> > +++ b/Makefile
> > @@ -1134,8 +1134,17 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_ARCH_VMLINUX_NEEDS_RELOCS),)
> >  LDFLAGS_vmlinux	+= --emit-relocs --discard-none
> >  endif
> >  
> > -# Align the bit size of userspace programs with the kernel
> > -USERFLAGS_FROM_KERNEL := -m32 -m64 --target=%
> > +# Align the architecture of userspace programs with the kernel
> > +USERFLAGS_FROM_KERNEL := --target=%
> > +
> > +ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USERPROGS_CFLAGS
> 
> Is this some left-over from a previous version?
> 
> s/CONFIG_ARCH_USERPROGS_CFLAGS/CONFIG_ARCH_USERFLAGS/

Indeed. Thanks.