[PATCH v2] purgatory: do not enable vectorization automatically for purgatory compiling
Simon Horman
horms at verge.net.au
Wed Mar 30 02:14:47 PDT 2022
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 06:12:28PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
> Redhat CKI reported kdump kernel will hang a while very early after crash
> triggered, then reset to firmware to reboot.
>
> This failure can only be observed with kdump or kexec reboot via
> kexec_load system call. With kexec_file_load interface, both kdump and
> kexec reboot work very well. And further investigation shows that gcc
> version 11 doesn't have this issue, while gcc version 12 does.
>
> After checking the release notes of the latest gcc, Dave found out it's
> because gcc 12 enables auto-vectorization for -O2 optimization level.
> Please see below link for more information:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GCC-12-Auto-Vec-O2
>
> Adding -fno-tree-vectorize to Makefile of purgatory can fix the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
Thanks, applied.
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