Build breakage with omap2plus_defconfig

Santosh Shilimkar santosh.shilimkar at ti.com
Fri Jan 7 08:05:39 EST 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-omap-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap-
> owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Felipe Balbi
> Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 6:30 PM
> To: Santosh Shilimkar
> Cc: balbi at ti.com; Russell King; Tony Lindgren; Linux OMAP Mailing
> List; Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Build breakage with omap2plus_defconfig
>
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 06:18:51PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: linux-omap-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-omap-
> > > owner at vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Felipe Balbi
> > > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 6:09 PM
> > > To: Russell King; Tony Lindgren
> > > Cc: Linux OMAP Mailing List; Linux ARM Kernel Mailing List
> > > Subject: Build breakage with omap2plus_defconfig
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Today's Linus' tree (01539ba2a706ab7d35fc0667dff919ade7f87d63)
> fails
> > > to
> > > build with omap2plus_defconfig:
> > >
> > > $ crossmake
> > >   CHK     include/linux/version.h
> > >   CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
> > > make[1]: `include/generated/mach-types.h' is up to date.
> > >   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > >   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
> > >   CC      arch/arm/kernel/swp_emulate.o
> > > /tmp/cc2V7p5j.s: Assembler messages:
> > > /tmp/cc2V7p5j.s:161: Error: selected processor does not support
> ARM
> > > mode `ldrexb r3,[r4]'
> > > /tmp/cc2V7p5j.s:162: Error: selected processor does not support
> ARM
> > > mode `strexb r0,r2,[r4]'
> >
> > Well it's not toolchain issue but the omap2plus_defconfig which
> > selects ARMv6 and ARMV7 together.
> >
> > If you remove ARCH_OMAP2 from build, it will go through.
>
> I like Catalin's approach:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> index 49db8b3..0fe2389 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ config ARM_THUMBEE
>
>  config SWP_EMULATE
>         bool "Emulate SWP/SWPB instructions"
> -       depends on CPU_V7
> +       depends on CPU_V7 && !CPU_V6
>         select HAVE_PROC_CPU if PROC_FS
>         default y if SMP
>         help
>
> Simple.
>
This patch is good but it does tell you that if
you will V6 and v7 together, the feature can't be used.

Like omap2plus_defconfig, and if booted on
say omap3 or omap4(v7), swp emulation can't be used
even though its supported.

Regards,
Santosh



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