This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: End spinlocks with .insn
to the 4.9-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-end-spinlocks-with-.insn.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4b5347a24a0f2d3272032c120664b484478455de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 14:50:24 +0000
Subject: MIPS: End spinlocks with .insn
From: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4b5347a24a0f2d3272032c120664b484478455de upstream.
When building for microMIPS we need to ensure that the assembler always
knows that there is code at the target of a branch or jump. Recent
toolchains will fail to link a microMIPS kernel when this isn't the case
due to what it thinks is a branch to non-microMIPS code.
mips-mti-linux-gnu-ld kernel/built-in.o: .spinlock.text+0x2fc: Unsupported branch between ISA modes.
mips-mti-linux-gnu-ld final link failed: Bad value
This is due to inline assembly labels in spinlock.h not being followed
by an instruction mnemonic, either due to a .subsection pseudo-op or the
end of the inline asm block.
Fix this with a .insn direction after such labels.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15325/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/spinlock.h
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static inline void arch_spin_lock(arch_s
" andi %[ticket], %[ticket], 0xffff \n"
" bne %[ticket], %[my_ticket], 4f \n"
" subu %[ticket], %[my_ticket], %[ticket] \n"
- "2: \n"
+ "2: .insn \n"
" .subsection 2 \n"
"4: andi %[ticket], %[ticket], 0xffff \n"
" sll %[ticket], 5 \n"
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static inline unsigned int arch_spin_try
" sc %[ticket], %[ticket_ptr] \n"
" beqz %[ticket], 1b \n"
" li %[ticket], 1 \n"
- "2: \n"
+ "2: .insn \n"
" .subsection 2 \n"
"3: b 2b \n"
" li %[ticket], 0 \n"
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ static inline int arch_read_trylock(arch
" .set reorder \n"
__WEAK_LLSC_MB
" li %2, 1 \n"
- "2: \n"
+ "2: .insn \n"
: "=" GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock), "=&r" (tmp), "=&r" (ret)
: GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock)
: "memory");
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static inline int arch_write_trylock(arc
" lui %1, 0x8000 \n"
" sc %1, %0 \n"
" li %2, 1 \n"
- "2: \n"
+ "2: .insn \n"
: "=" GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock), "=&r" (tmp),
"=&r" (ret)
: GCC_OFF_SMALL_ASM() (rw->lock)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.burton@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/mips-end-spinlocks-with-.insn.patch
queue-4.9/mips-force-o32-fp64-support-on-32bit-mips64r6-kernels.patch