[PATCH] arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Thu Oct 26 09:36:14 PDT 2023


On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 10:21:28 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> A recent refactoring in the arm64 tree exposed an assembler bug in LLVM
> with regards to the generation of NOPs for arm64 big endian, resulting
> in near-immediate crashes on boot in QEMU.
> 
> Restrict CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to a known good assembler, which is
> either GNU as or LLVM's IAS 15.0.0 and newer, which contains the linked
> commit.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64: Restrict CPU_BIG_ENDIAN to GNU as or LLVM IAS 15.x or newer
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/146a15b87335

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Catalin




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