This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issues between clang and binutils
to the 5.15-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:
riscv-handle-zicsr-zifencei-issues-between-clang-and-binutils.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e89c2e815e76471cb507bd95728bf26da7976430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:00:23 -0700
Subject: riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issues between clang and binutils
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit e89c2e815e76471cb507bd95728bf26da7976430 upstream.
There are two related issues that appear in certain combinations with
clang and GNU binutils.
The first occurs when a version of clang that supports zicsr or zifencei
via '-march=' [1] (i.e, >= 17.x) is used in combination with a version
of GNU binutils that do not recognize zicsr and zifencei in the
'-march=' value (i.e., < 2.36):
riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: -march=rv64i2p0_m2p0_a2p0_c2p0_zicsr2p0_zifencei2p0: Invalid or unknown z ISA extension: 'zifencei'
riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file fs/efivarfs/file.o
riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: -march=rv64i2p0_m2p0_a2p0_c2p0_zicsr2p0_zifencei2p0: Invalid or unknown z ISA extension: 'zifencei'
riscv64-linux-gnu-ld: failed to merge target specific data of file fs/efivarfs/super.o
The second occurs when a version of clang that does not support zicsr or
zifencei via '-march=' (i.e., <= 16.x) is used in combination with a
version of GNU as that defaults to a newer ISA base spec, which requires
specifying zicsr and zifencei in the '-march=' value explicitly (i.e, >=
2.38):
../arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_relocate.S: Assembler messages:
../arch/riscv/kernel/kexec_relocate.S:147: Error: unrecognized opcode `fence.i', extension `zifencei' required
clang-12: error: assembler command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
This is the same issue addressed by commit 6df2a016c0c8 ("riscv: fix
build with binutils 2.38") (see [2] for additional information) but
older versions of clang miss out on it because the cc-option check
fails:
clang-12: error: invalid arch name 'rv64imac_zicsr_zifencei', unsupported standard user-level extension 'zicsr'
clang-12: error: invalid arch name 'rv64imac_zicsr_zifencei', unsupported standard user-level extension 'zicsr'
To resolve the first issue, only attempt to add zicsr and zifencei to
the march string when using the GNU assembler 2.38 or newer, which is
when the default ISA spec was updated, requiring these extensions to be
specified explicitly. LLVM implements an older version of the base
specification for all currently released versions, so these instructions
are available as part of the 'i' extension. If LLVM's implementation is
updated in the future, a CONFIG_AS_IS_LLVM condition can be added to
CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI.
To resolve the second issue, use version 2.2 of the base ISA spec when
using an older version of clang that does not support zicsr or zifencei
via '-march=', as that is the spec version most compatible with the one
clang/LLVM implements and avoids the need to specify zicsr and zifencei
explicitly due to still being a part of 'i'.
[1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/22e199e6afb1263c943c0c0d4498694e15bf8a16
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/ZAxT7T9Xy1Fo3d5W@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1808
Co-developed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313-riscv-zicsr-zifencei-fiasco-v1-1-dd1b7840a551@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/riscv/Makefile | 10 ++++++----
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -361,6 +361,28 @@ config RISCV_BASE_PMU
endmenu
+config TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
+ def_bool y
+ # https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=aed44286efa8ae8717a77d94b51ac3614e2ca6dc
+ depends on AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23800
+ help
+ Newer binutils versions default to ISA spec version 20191213 which
+ moves some instructions from the I extension to the Zicsr and Zifencei
+ extensions.
+
+config TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
+ def_bool y
+ depends on TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
+ # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/22e199e6afb1263c943c0c0d4498694e15bf8a16
+ depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 170000
+ help
+ Certain versions of clang do not support zicsr and zifencei via -march
+ but newer versions of binutils require it for the reasons noted in the
+ help text of CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI. This
+ option causes an older ISA spec compatible with these older versions
+ of clang to be passed to GAS, which has the same result as passing zicsr
+ and zifencei to -march.
+
config FPU
bool "FPU support"
default y
--- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
@@ -59,10 +59,12 @@ riscv-march-$(CONFIG_ARCH_RV64I) := rv64
riscv-march-$(CONFIG_FPU) := $(riscv-march-y)fd
riscv-march-$(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C) := $(riscv-march-y)c
-# Newer binutils versions default to ISA spec version 20191213 which moves some
-# instructions from the I extension to the Zicsr and Zifencei extensions.
-toolchain-need-zicsr-zifencei := $(call cc-option-yn, -march=$(riscv-march-y)_zicsr_zifencei)
-riscv-march-$(toolchain-need-zicsr-zifencei) := $(riscv-march-y)_zicsr_zifencei
+ifdef CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wa,-misa-spec=2.2
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += -Wa,-misa-spec=2.2
+else
+riscv-march-$(CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI) := $(riscv-march-y)_zicsr_zifencei
+endif
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -march=$(subst fd,,$(riscv-march-y))
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -march=$(riscv-march-y)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.15/riscv-handle-zicsr-zifencei-issues-between-clang-and-binutils.patch
queue-5.15/kfence-avoid-passing-g-for-test.patch
