On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 02:53:29PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 01:49:20PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > SMSTOP/SMSTART require the SME arch extension for the assembler. Add > > '.arch_extension sme' to za-test.S and zt-test.S. > > I've got an alternative, more idiomatic fix for this running through my > testing - SME is still relatively recent so we can't rely on people's > toolchains having it and we should use a .inst instead. The issue was > that the toolchain I'm using locally appears to default to a full fat > version of the architecture and happily assembled the SMSTART even > though we don't have a .inst macro for it like we do with SMSTOP (which > is why that didn't error). We only have SMSTART SM and SMSTART ZA. It makes sense. Please post yours and I'll drop this one. -- Catalin