This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: Support binutils configured with --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=yes to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mips-support-binutils-configured-with-enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc-yes.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5373ae67c3aad1ab306cc722b5a80b831eb4d4d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 20:30:47 +0100 Subject: MIPS: Support binutils configured with --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=yes From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 5373ae67c3aad1ab306cc722b5a80b831eb4d4d1 upstream. >From version 2.35, binutils can be configured with --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=yes, which means it defaults to -mfix-loongson3-llsc. This breaks labels which might then point at the wrong instruction. The workaround to explicitly pass -mno-fix-loongson3-llsc has been added in Linux version 5.1, but is only enabled when building a Loongson 64 kernel. As vendors might use a common toolchain for building Loongson and non-Loongson kernels, just move that workaround to arch/mips/Makefile. At the same time update the comments to reflect the current status. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.1+ Cc: YunQiang Su <syq@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/Makefile | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ arch/mips/loongson64/Platform | 22 ---------------------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/Makefile +++ b/arch/mips/Makefile @@ -136,6 +136,25 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS) += $(cal # cflags-y += -fno-stack-check +# binutils from v2.35 when built with --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=yes, +# supports an -mfix-loongson3-llsc flag which emits a sync prior to each ll +# instruction to work around a CPU bug (see __SYNC_loongson3_war in asm/sync.h +# for a description). +# +# We disable this in order to prevent the assembler meddling with the +# instruction that labels refer to, ie. if we label an ll instruction: +# +# 1: ll v0, 0(a0) +# +# ...then with the assembler fix applied the label may actually point at a sync +# instruction inserted by the assembler, and if we were using the label in an +# exception table the table would no longer contain the address of the ll +# instruction. +# +# Avoid this by explicitly disabling that assembler behaviour. +# +cflags-y += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-fix-loongson3-llsc,) + # # CPU-dependent compiler/assembler options for optimization. # --- a/arch/mips/loongson64/Platform +++ b/arch/mips/loongson64/Platform @@ -6,28 +6,6 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON64) += -Wa,--trap # -# Some versions of binutils, not currently mainline as of 2019/02/04, support -# an -mfix-loongson3-llsc flag which emits a sync prior to each ll instruction -# to work around a CPU bug (see __SYNC_loongson3_war in asm/sync.h for a -# description). -# -# We disable this in order to prevent the assembler meddling with the -# instruction that labels refer to, ie. if we label an ll instruction: -# -# 1: ll v0, 0(a0) -# -# ...then with the assembler fix applied the label may actually point at a sync -# instruction inserted by the assembler, and if we were using the label in an -# exception table the table would no longer contain the address of the ll -# instruction. -# -# Avoid this by explicitly disabling that assembler behaviour. If upstream -# binutils does not merge support for the flag then we can revisit & remove -# this later - for now it ensures vendor toolchains don't cause problems. -# -cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LOONGSON64) += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-fix-loongson3-llsc,) - -# # binutils from v2.25 on and gcc starting from v4.9.0 treat -march=loongson3a # as MIPS64 R2; older versions as just R1. This leaves the possibility open # that GCC might generate R2 code for -march=loongson3a which then is rejected Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/mips-support-binutils-configured-with-enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc-yes.patch