Mingzheng Xing 3383597574 riscv: Handle zicsr/zifencei issue between gcc and binutils
commit ca09f772cccaeec4cd05a21528c37a260aa2dd2c upstream.

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@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230223220546.52879-1-conor@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mingzheng Xing <xingmingzheng@iscas.ac.cn>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230809165648.21071-1-xingmingzheng@iscas.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-30 16:11:08 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
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2023-08-27 21:01:32 +02:00

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