[PATCH] riscv: Fix build errors using binutils2.37 toolchains

Mingzheng Xing xingmingzheng at iscas.ac.cn
Thu Aug 24 12:08:52 PDT 2023


When building the kernel with binutils 2.37 and GCC-11.1.0/GCC-11.2.0,
the following error occurs:

  Assembler messages:
  Error: cannot find default versions of the ISA extension `zicsr'
  Error: cannot find default versions of the ISA extension `zifencei'

The above error originated from this commit of binutils[0], which has been
resolved and backported by GCC-12.1.0[1] and GCC-11.3.0[2].

So fix this by change the GCC version in
CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC to GCC-11.3.0.

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=f0bae2552db1dd4f1995608fbf6648fcee4e9e0c [0]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=ca2bbb88f999f4d3cc40e89bc1aba712505dd598 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=d29f5d6ab513c52fd872f532c492e35ae9fd6671 [2]
Fixes: ca09f772ccca ("riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issue between gcc and binutils")
Reported-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mingzheng Xing <xingmingzheng at iscas.ac.cn>
---

Then below are my test results after this fix:

gcc        binutils

10.5.0     2.35            ok
10.5.0     2.36            ok
10.5.0     2.37            ok
10.5.0     2.38            ok

11.1.0     2.35            ok
11.1.0     2.36            ok
11.1.0     2.37            ok
11.1.0     2.38            ok

11.2.0     2.35            ok
11.2.0     2.36            ok
11.2.0     2.37            ok
11.2.0     2.38            ok

11.3.0     2.35            ok
11.3.0     2.36            ok
11.3.0     2.37            ok
11.3.0     2.38            ok

11.4.0     2.35            ok
11.4.0     2.36            ok
11.4.0     2.37            ok
11.4.0     2.38            ok

12.1.0     2.35            ok
12.1.0     2.36            ok
12.1.0     2.37            ok
12.1.0     2.38            ok

12.2.0     2.35            ok
12.2.0     2.36            ok
12.2.0     2.37            ok
12.2.0     2.38            ok 

 arch/riscv/Kconfig | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 10e7a7ad175a..bea7b73e895d 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -580,15 +580,15 @@ config TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
 	  and Zifencei are supported in binutils from version 2.36 onwards.
 	  To make life easier, and avoid forcing toolchains that default to a
 	  newer ISA spec to version 2.2, relax the check to binutils >= 2.36.
-	  For clang < 17 or GCC < 11.1.0, for which this is not possible, this is
-	  dealt with in CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC.
+	  For clang < 17 or GCC < 11.3.0, for which this is not possible or need
+	  special treatment, this is dealt with in TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC.
 
 config TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
 	def_bool y
 	depends on TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
 	# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/22e199e6afb1263c943c0c0d4498694e15bf8a16
-	# https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=b03be74bad08c382da47e048007a78fa3fb4ef49
-	depends on (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 170000) || (CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 110100)
+	# https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=d29f5d6ab513c52fd872f532c492e35ae9fd6671
+	depends on (CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 170000) || (CC_IS_GCC && GCC_VERSION < 110300)
 	help
 	  Certain versions of clang and GCC do not support zicsr and zifencei via
 	  -march. This option causes an older ISA spec compatible with these older
-- 
2.34.1




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