kbuild: save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE when building a kernel

When building a kernel for a different architecture
kbuild requires the user always to specify ARCH and
CROSS_COMPILE on the command-line.

We use the asm symlink to detect if user forgets to
specify the correct ARCH value - but that symlink
is about to die. And we do now want to loose this check.

This patch save the settings of ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE
in two files named:

    include/generated/kernel.arch
    include/generated/kernel.cross

The settings are saved during "make *config" time
and always read.

If user try to change the settings we error out.

This works both for plain builds and for O=...
builds.

So now you can do:
$ mkdir sparc64
$ make O=sparc64 ARCH=sparc64 CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux- defconfig
$ cd sparc64
$ make

Notice that you no longer need to tell kbuild
the settings of ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE when you type make
in the output directory.

Likewise for plain builds where you do not use O=...

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 44 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 305d00594ad..a45b0a23182 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -179,9 +179,46 @@ SUBARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/ \
 # Alternatively CROSS_COMPILE can be set in the environment.
 # Default value for CROSS_COMPILE is not to prefix executables
 # Note: Some architectures assign CROSS_COMPILE in their arch/*/Makefile
+#
+# To force ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE settings include kernel.* files
+# in the kernel tree - do not patch this file.
 export KBUILD_BUILDHOST := $(SUBARCH)
-ARCH            ?= $(SUBARCH)
-CROSS_COMPILE   ?=
+
+# Kbuild save the ARCH and CROSS_COMPILE setting in kernel.* files.
+# Restore these settings and check that user did not specify
+# conflicting values.
+
+saved_arch  := $(shell cat include/generated/kernel.arch  2> /dev/null)
+saved_cross := $(shell cat include/generated/kernel.cross 2> /dev/null)
+
+ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),)
+        ifneq ($(saved_cross),)
+                ifneq ($(CROSS_COMPILE),$(saved_cross))
+                        $(error CROSS_COMPILE changed from \
+                                "$(saved_cross)" to \
+                                 to "$(CROSS_COMPILE)". \
+                                 Use "make mrproper" to fix it up)
+                endif
+        endif
+else
+    CROSS_COMPILE := $(saved_cross)
+endif
+
+ifneq ($(ARCH),)
+        ifneq ($(saved_arch),)
+                ifneq ($(saved_arch),$(ARCH))
+                        $(error ARCH changed from \
+                                "$(saved_arch)" to "$(ARCH)". \
+                                 Use "make mrproper" to fix it up)
+                endif
+        endif
+else
+        ifneq ($(saved_arch),)
+                ARCH := $(saved_arch)
+        else
+                ARCH := $(SUBARCH)
+        endif
+endif
 
 # Architecture as present in compile.h
 UTS_MACHINE     := $(ARCH)
@@ -446,6 +483,11 @@ ifeq ($(config-targets),1)
 include $(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/Makefile
 export KBUILD_DEFCONFIG KBUILD_KCONFIG
 
+# save ARCH & CROSS_COMPILE settings
+$(shell mkdir -p include/generated &&                            \
+        echo $(ARCH)          > include/generated/kernel.arch && \
+        echo $(CROSS_COMPILE) > include/generated/kernel.cross)
+
 config: scripts_basic outputmakefile FORCE
         $(Q)mkdir -p include/linux include/config
         $(Q)$(MAKE) $(build)=scripts/kconfig $@