[PATCH v1] riscv: Using TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZIHINTPAUSE marco replace zihintpause

[Conor Dooley]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 11:42:59AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 09:52:45AM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 04:17:51PM +0800, Minda Chen wrote:
> > > > On 2023/8/2 15:48, Conor Dooley wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 03:32:15PM +0800, Minda Chen wrote:
> > > > >> On 2023/8/2 14:54, Conor Dooley wrote:

> > > > >> Thanks, Conor. I found this just by inspection. I found a issue that vdso.so call cpu_relax
> > > > >> cause application core dump in kernel 6.1.31. I need Samuel'patch to fix this. And I search the log
> > > > >> of processor.h found this issue.
> > > > > 
> > > > > That doesn't look like it is fixed in later stable kernels (we are at
> > > > > 6.1.42-rcN right now I think). It sounds we should ask Greg to backport
> > > > > 0b1d60d6dd9e ("riscv: Fix build with CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y")
> > > > > to 6.1. Does that make sense to you?
> > > > Yes. 6.1 is lts kernel. Starfive will use this kernel for a long time. Thanks.
> > > 
> > > What is preventing you from moving to a newer kernel version?  All of
> > > your kernel changes are already properly merged into Linus's tree,
> > > right?
> > 
> > Regardless of their reasons, "vdso.so call cpu_relax cause application
> > core dump" is something that we should fix in stable kernels, no?
> 
> Yes.

It doesn't apply cleanly as a cherry-pick onto linux-6.1, so it'll need
to be submitted. Maybe Minda can do that, since they've got an already
tested version of the patch. Failing that, I will.
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