This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86, build: Pass in additional -mno-mmx, -mno-sse options to the 3.12-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: x86-build-pass-in-additional-mno-mmx-mno-sse-options.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8b3b005d675726e38bc504d2e35a991e55819155 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:43:38 -0800 Subject: x86, build: Pass in additional -mno-mmx, -mno-sse options From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 8b3b005d675726e38bc504d2e35a991e55819155 upstream. In checkin 5551a34e5aea x86-64, build: Always pass in -mno-sse we unconditionally added -mno-sse to the main build, to keep newer compilers from generating SSE instructions from autovectorization. However, this did not extend to the special environments (arch/x86/boot, arch/x86/boot/compressed, and arch/x86/realmode/rm). Add -mno-sse to the compiler command line for these environments, and add -mno-mmx to all the environments as well, as we don't want a compiler to generate MMX code either. This patch also removes a $(cc-option) call for -m32, since we have long since stopped supporting compilers too old for the -m32 option, and in fact hardcode it in other places in the Makefiles. Reported-by: Kevin B. Smith <kevin.b.smith@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sunil K. Pandey <sunil.k.pandey@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-j21wzqv790q834n7yc6g80j1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/Makefile | 8 ++++---- arch/x86/boot/Makefile | 6 +++--- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 1 + arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile | 3 ++- 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y) KBUILD_CFLAGS += -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return - # Don't autogenerate SSE instructions - KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-sse + # Don't autogenerate MMX or SSE instructions + KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-mmx -mno-sse # Never want PIC in a 32-bit kernel, prevent breakage with GCC built # with nonstandard options @@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ else KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m64 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m64 - # Don't autogenerate SSE instructions - KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-sse + # Don't autogenerate MMX or SSE instructions + KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-mmx -mno-sse # Use -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 if supported. KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mpreferred-stack-boundary=3) --- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile @@ -53,18 +53,18 @@ $(obj)/cpustr.h: $(obj)/mkcpustr FORCE # How to compile the 16-bit code. Note we always compile for -march=i386, # that way we can complain to the user if the CPU is insufficient. -KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(USERINCLUDE) -g -Os -D_SETUP -D__KERNEL__ \ +KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(USERINCLUDE) -m32 -g -Os -D_SETUP -D__KERNEL__ \ -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING \ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes \ -march=i386 -mregparm=3 \ -include $(srctree)/$(src)/code16gcc.h \ -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-pic \ + -mno-mmx -mno-sse \ $(call cc-option, -ffreestanding) \ $(call cc-option, -fno-toplevel-reorder,\ - $(call cc-option, -fno-unit-at-a-time)) \ + $(call cc-option, -fno-unit-at-a-time)) \ $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) \ $(call cc-option, -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2) -KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -m32) KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ GCOV_PROFILE := n --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFIL cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_32) := -march=i386 cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := -mcmodel=small KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cflags-y) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-mmx -mno-sse KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-ffreestanding) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-stack-protector) --- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile @@ -73,9 +73,10 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS := $(LINUXINCLUDE) -m32 -g -march=i386 -mregparm=3 \ -include $(srctree)/$(src)/../../boot/code16gcc.h \ -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-pic \ + -mno-mmx -mno-sse \ $(call cc-option, -ffreestanding) \ $(call cc-option, -fno-toplevel-reorder,\ - $(call cc-option, -fno-unit-at-a-time)) \ + $(call cc-option, -fno-unit-at-a-time)) \ $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector) \ $(call cc-option, -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2) KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/x86-build-pass-in-additional-mno-mmx-mno-sse-options.patch queue-3.12/x86-efi-don-t-use-u-efi-time-services-on-32-bit.patch queue-3.12/x86-build-icc-remove-uninitialized_var-from-compiler-intel.h.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html