[PATCH] riscv: fix build with binutils 2.38

Aurelien Jarno aurelien at aurel32.net
Wed Jan 26 09:14:42 PST 2022


>From version 2.38, binutils default to ISA spec version 20191213. This
means that the csr read/write (csrr*/csrw*) instructions and fence.i
instruction has separated from the `I` extension, become two standalone
extensions: Zicsr and Zifencei. As the kernel uses those instruction,
this causes the following build failure:

  CC      arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vgettimeofday.o
  <<BUILDDIR>>/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h: Assembler messages:
  <<BUILDDIR>>/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:71: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a5,0xc01'
  <<BUILDDIR>>/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:71: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a5,0xc01'
  <<BUILDDIR>>/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:71: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a5,0xc01'
  <<BUILDDIR>>/arch/riscv/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h:71: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a5,0xc01'

The fix is to specify those extensions explicitely in -march. However as
older binutils version do not support this, we first need to detect
that.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 4.15+
Cc: Kito Cheng <kito.cheng at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
---
 arch/riscv/Makefile | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile
index 8a107ed18b0d..7d81102cffd4 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ riscv-march-$(CONFIG_ARCH_RV32I)	:= rv32ima
 riscv-march-$(CONFIG_ARCH_RV64I)	:= rv64ima
 riscv-march-$(CONFIG_FPU)		:= $(riscv-march-y)fd
 riscv-march-$(CONFIG_RISCV_ISA_C)	:= $(riscv-march-y)c
+
+# Newer binutils versions default to ISA spec version 20191213 which moves some
+# instructions from the I extension to the Zicsr and Zifencei extensions.
+toolchain-need-zicsr-zifencei := $(call cc-option-yn, -march=$(riscv-march-y)_zicsr_zifencei)
+riscv-march-$(toolchain-need-zicsr-zifencei) := $(riscv-march-y)_zicsr_zifencei
+
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -march=$(subst fd,,$(riscv-march-y))
 KBUILD_AFLAGS += -march=$(riscv-march-y)
 
-- 
2.34.1




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