[PATCH 4.19] riscv: fix build with binutils 2.38

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sun Oct 16 05:56:47 PDT 2022


On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 12:18:57PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> 
> commit 6df2a016c0c8a3d0933ef33dd192ea6606b115e3 upstream.
> 
> >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 explicitly in -march. However as
> older binutils version do not support this, we first need to detect
> that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32.net>
> Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexandre.ghiti at canonical.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at rivosinc.com>
> [Conor: converted to the 4.19 style of march string generation]
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
> ---
> CC: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
> CC: linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> lkp has yet to complain, so here you go Greg..

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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