This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled powerpc/fsl: Fix mfpmr build errors with newer binutils 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: powerpc-fsl-fix-mfpmr-build-errors-with-newer-binuti.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. commit 5cedc86d09bc676b441bf201ea45b03747cbf99f Author: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 29 23:25:19 2024 +1100 powerpc/fsl: Fix mfpmr build errors with newer binutils [ Upstream commit 5f491356b7149564ab22323ccce79c8d595bfd0c ] Binutils 2.38 complains about the use of mfpmr when building ppc6xx_defconfig: CC arch/powerpc/kernel/pmc.o {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:45: Error: unrecognized opcode: `mfpmr' {standard input}:56: Error: unrecognized opcode: `mtpmr' This is because by default the kernel is built with -mcpu=powerpc, and the mt/mfpmr instructions are not defined. It can be avoided by enabling CONFIG_E300C3_CPU, but just adding that to the defconfig will leave open the possibility of randconfig failures. So add machine directives around the mt/mfpmr instructions to tell binutils how to assemble them. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/20240229122521.762431-3-mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_fsl_emb.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_fsl_emb.h index a21f529c43d96..8359c06d92d9f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_fsl_emb.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg_fsl_emb.h @@ -12,9 +12,16 @@ #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ /* Performance Monitor Registers */ #define mfpmr(rn) ({unsigned int rval; \ - asm volatile("mfpmr %0," __stringify(rn) \ + asm volatile(".machine push; " \ + ".machine e300; " \ + "mfpmr %0," __stringify(rn) ";" \ + ".machine pop; " \ : "=r" (rval)); rval;}) -#define mtpmr(rn, v) asm volatile("mtpmr " __stringify(rn) ",%0" : : "r" (v)) +#define mtpmr(rn, v) asm volatile(".machine push; " \ + ".machine e300; " \ + "mtpmr " __stringify(rn) ",%0; " \ + ".machine pop; " \ + : : "r" (v)) #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ /* Freescale Book E Performance Monitor APU Registers */