[PATCH v6 04/20] arm64: change some CONFIG_COMPAT over to use CONFIG_AARCH32_EL0 instead

Yury Norov ynorov at caviumnetworks.com
Tue Dec 29 05:12:49 PST 2015


On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 05:01:15PM +0800, Zhangjian (Bamvor) wrote:
> Fix the title.

Hi,

Could you re-send your patch, as previous version has wrong subject,
and this - commented body. Or, I can just meld your change to patch #4.

Yury.

> 
> On 16:43 2015/12/28, Bamvor Jian Zhang wrote:
> >I feel we need something like this to avoid the failure of compiling
> >when build with ARM64_ILP32(which will select COMPAT) and
> >ARMV8_DEPRECATED (which depends on the opcodes.o).
> >
> > From f8b8ffdb449491ecf8ba465238bbdb4625a74ac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >From: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian at linaro.org>
> >Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:57:46 +0800
> >Subject: [PATCH] arm64: compat: fix wrong dependency of ARMV8_DEPRECATED
> >
> >When compile with ARM64_ILP32, ARMV8_DEPRECATED will be selected due
> >to the dependency of COMPAT. It leads to the following error:
> >     LD      init/built-in.o
> >     arch/arm64/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cp15barrier_handler':
> >     /home/bamvor/works/source/kernel/linux_ilp32/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c:467: undefined reference to `arm_check_condition'
> >     /home/bamvor/works/source/kernel/linux_ilp32/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c:467: undefined reference to `arm_check_condition'
> >     arch/arm64/kernel/built-in.o: In function `swp_handler':
> >     /home/bamvor/works/source/kernel/linux_ilp32/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c:386: undefined reference to `arm_check_condition'
> >     /home/bamvor/works/source/kernel/linux_ilp32/arch/arm64/kernel/armv8_deprecated.c:386: undefined reference to `arm_check_condition'
> >     Makefile:927: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
> >     make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> >
> >This patch fix this by updating the dependency from COMPAT to
> >AARCH32_EL0.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian at linaro.org>
> >---
> >  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> >index deec37a..e52fd03 100644
> >--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> >+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> >@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER
> >
> >  menuconfig ARMV8_DEPRECATED
> >  	bool "Emulate deprecated/obsolete ARMv8 instructions"
> >-	depends on COMPAT
> >+	depends on AARCH32_EL0
> >  	help
> >  	  Legacy software support may require certain instructions
> >  	  that have been deprecated or obsoleted in the architecture.
> >



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