We raise the minimal supported binutils version from time to time. The last bump was commit 1fb12b35e5ff ("kbuild: Raise the minimum required binutils version to 2.21"). We need to keep these as-instr checks because binutils 2.21 does not support them. I hope this will be a good hint which one can be dropped when we bump the minimal binutils version next time. As for the Clang/LLVM builds, we require very new LLVM version, so the LLVM integrated assembler supports all of them. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile index f32ef7b8d5ca..4c57cb3018fb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -178,10 +178,15 @@ ifeq ($(ACCUMULATE_OUTGOING_ARGS), 1) endif # does binutils support specific instructions? +# binutils >= 2.22 avx2_instr :=$(call as-instr,vpbroadcastb %xmm0$(comma)%ymm1,-DCONFIG_AS_AVX2=1) +# binutils >= 2.25 avx512_instr :=$(call as-instr,vpmovm2b %k1$(comma)%zmm5,-DCONFIG_AS_AVX512=1) +# binutils >= 2.24 sha1_ni_instr :=$(call as-instr,sha1msg1 %xmm0$(comma)%xmm1,-DCONFIG_AS_SHA1_NI=1) +# binutils >= 2.24 sha256_ni_instr :=$(call as-instr,sha256msg1 %xmm0$(comma)%xmm1,-DCONFIG_AS_SHA256_NI=1) +# binutils >= 2.23 adx_instr := $(call as-instr,adox %r10$(comma)%r10,-DCONFIG_AS_ADX=1) KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(avx2_instr) $(avx512_instr) $(sha1_ni_instr) $(sha256_ni_instr) $(adx_instr) -- 2.17.1