Re: [PATCH v3] riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issue between gcc and binutils
From: Mingzheng Xing
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 11:16:50 EST
On 7/31/23 22:01, Conor Dooley wrote:
Hey,
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 05:59:36PM +0800, Mingzheng Xing wrote:
Binutils-2.38 and GCC-12.1.0 bumped[0][1] the default ISA spec to the newer
20191213 version which moves some instructions from the I extension to the
Zicsr and Zifencei extensions. So if one of the binutils and GCC exceeds
that version, we should explicitly specifying Zicsr and Zifencei via -march
to cope with the new changes. but this only occurs when binutils >= 2.36
and GCC >= 11.1.0. It's a different story when binutils < 2.36.
binutils-2.36 supports the Zifencei extension[2] and splits Zifencei and
Zicsr from I[3]. GCC-11.1.0 is particular[4] because it add support Zicsr
and Zifencei extension for -march. binutils-2.35 does not support the
Zifencei extension, and does not need to specify Zicsr and Zifencei when
working with GCC >= 12.1.0.
To make our lives easier, let's relax the check to binutils >= 2.36 in
CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI. For the other two cases,
where clang < 17 or GCC < 11.1.0, we will deal with them in
CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC.
For more information, please refer to:
commit 6df2a016c0c8 ("riscv: fix build with binutils 2.38")
commit e89c2e815e76 ("riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issues between clang and binutils")
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=aed44286efa8ae8717a77d94b51ac3614e2ca6dc [0]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=98416dbb0a62579d4a7a4a76bab51b5b52fec2cd [1]
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=5a1b31e1e1cee6e9f1c92abff59cdcfff0dddf30 [2]
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=729a53530e86972d1143553a415db34e6e01d5d2 [3]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=b03be74bad08c382da47e048007a78fa3fb4ef49 [4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230308220842.1231003-1-conor@xxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230223220546.52879-1-conor@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mingzheng Xing <xingmingzheng@xxxxxxxxxxx>
You need to actually put the CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx into the commit
message for the stable folks to pick things up.
Thanks. Fixed in next version.
diff --git a/arch/riscv/Kconfig b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
index 4c07b9189c86..2704bd91dfb5 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/Kconfig
@@ -570,24 +570,31 @@ config TOOLCHAIN_HAS_ZIHINTPAUSE
config TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
def_bool y
# https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=aed44286efa8ae8717a77d94b51ac3614e2ca6dc
- depends on AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23800
- help
- Newer binutils versions default to ISA spec version 20191213 which
- moves some instructions from the I extension to the Zicsr and Zifencei
- extensions.
+ # https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=98416dbb0a62579d4a7a4a76bab51b5b52fec2cd
+ depends on AS_IS_GNU && AS_VERSION >= 23600
+ help
+ Binutils-2.38 and GCC-12.1.0 bumped the default ISA spec to the newer
+ 20191213 version, which moves some instructions from the I extension to
+ the Zicsr and Zifencei extensions. This requires explicitly specifying
+ zicsr and zifencei when binutils >= 2.38 or GCC >= 12.1.0,
but this only
+ occurs when binutils >= 2.36 and GCC >= 11.1.0.
+ It's a different story when binutils < 2.36.
I would replace this with something like:
Binutils-2.38 and GCC-12.1.0 bumped the default ISA spec to the newer
20191213 version, which moves some instructions from the I extension to
the Zicsr and Zifencei extensions. This requires explicitly specifying
zicsr and zifencei when binutils >= 2.38 or GCC >= 12.1.0. Zicsr
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.
I tried to take the personification out of it & hopefully made it a
little clearer what dropping the check to 2.36 does for us.
Also, we have to consider the case of clang paired with binutils.
I think this sentence can go, its covered in the other config text.
I'm sorry for being a bit of a pedant about this, but this has been such
a can of worms that I would like things to remain explained well enough
that the text is sufficient next time a revisit is required.
Thanks for your review, I've made the changes and submitted a
new PATCH but there seems to be an email thread issue,
hopefully it won't have an effect, sorry about that.
:)
Thanks,
Mingzheng.
Thanks,
Conor.
+ To make our lives easier, we relax the check to binutils >= 2.36. >
config TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
def_bool y
depends on TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
# https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/22e199e6afb1263c943c0c0d4498694e15bf8a16
- depends on CC_IS_CLANG && CLANG_VERSION < 170000
- help
- Certain versions of clang do not support zicsr and zifencei via -march
- but newer versions of binutils require it for the reasons noted in the
- help text of CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI. This
- option causes an older ISA spec compatible with these older versions
- of clang to be passed to GAS, which has the same result as passing zicsr
- and zifencei to -march.
+ # 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)
+ 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
+ versions of clang and GCC to be passed to GAS, which has the same result
+ as passing zicsr and zifencei to -march.
config FPU
bool "FPU support"
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/compat_vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/compat_vdso/Makefile
index 189345773e7e..b86e5e2c3aea 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/compat_vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/compat_vdso/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,13 @@ compat_vdso-syms += flush_icache
COMPAT_CC := $(CC)
COMPAT_LD := $(LD)
-COMPAT_CC_FLAGS := -march=rv32g -mabi=ilp32
+# binutils 2.35 does not support the zifencei extension, but in the ISA
+# spec 20191213, G stands for IMAFD_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI.
+ifdef CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_EXPLICIT_ZICSR_ZIFENCEI
+ COMPAT_CC_FLAGS := -march=rv32g -mabi=ilp32
+else
+ COMPAT_CC_FLAGS := -march=rv32imafd -mabi=ilp32
+endif
COMPAT_LD_FLAGS := -melf32lriscv
# Disable attributes, as they're useless and break the build.
--
2.34.1
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