[PATCH] ARM: always enable AEABI for ARMv6+
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Jun 22 02:59:00 PDT 2017
On 22/06/17 10:12, Russell King wrote:
> Always enable AEABI for ARMv6+, as these use the double-word exclusives
> which must be passed an even register to avoid errors such as:
>
> /tmp/ccG2rCwe.s:905: Error: even register required -- `ldrexd r5,r6,[r7]'
> /tmp/ccG2rCwe.s:909: Error: even register required -- `strexd sl,r3,r4,[r7]'
>
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> ---
> arch/arm/Kconfig | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> index 270ab2549def..78e42f691270 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
> @@ -1542,7 +1542,6 @@ config THUMB2_KERNEL
> bool "Compile the kernel in Thumb-2 mode" if !CPU_THUMBONLY
> depends on (CPU_V7 || CPU_V7M) && !CPU_V6 && !CPU_V6K
> default y if CPU_THUMBONLY
> - select AEABI
> select ARM_ASM_UNIFIED
> select ARM_UNWIND
> help
> @@ -1605,7 +1604,8 @@ config ARM_PATCH_IDIV
> code to do integer division.
>
> config AEABI
> - bool "Use the ARM EABI to compile the kernel"
> + bool "Use the ARM EABI to compile the kernel" if !THUMB2_KERNEL && !CPU_V7 && !CPU_V7M && !CPU_V6 && !CPU_V6K
Isn't !THUMB2_KERNEL already a strict subset of !CPU_V7 && !CPU_V7M?
Robin.
> + default THUMB2_KERNEL || CPU_V7 || CPU_V7M || CPU_V6 || CPU_V6K
> help
> This option allows for the kernel to be compiled using the latest
> ARM ABI (aka EABI). This is only useful if you are using a user
>
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