As reported by Will Deacon, older versions of binutils that do not
support certain types of memory barriers can cause build failure of the
vdso32 library.
Add a compilation time mechanism that detects if binutils supports those
instructions and configure the kernel accordingly.
Cc: Will Deacon <w...@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frasc...@arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/Kbuild | 6 ++++++
arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_barrier.h | 2 +-
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile | 9 +++++++++
3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kbuild b/arch/arm64/Kbuild
index d6465823b281..75cf8c796d0e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kbuild
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kbuild
@@ -4,3 +4,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_NET) += net/
obj-$(CONFIG_KVM) += kvm/
obj-$(CONFIG_XEN) += xen/
obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO) += crypto/
+
+# as-instr-compat
+# Usage: cflags-y += $(call as-instr-compat,instr,option1,option2)
+
+as-instr-compat = $(call try-run,\
+ printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(COMPATCC) $(KBUILD_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler -o
"$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_barrier.h
b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_barrier.h
index fb60a88b5ed4..3fd8fd6d8fc2 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_barrier.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_barrier.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
#define dmb(option) __asm__ __volatile__ ("dmb " #option : : : "memory")
-#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 8
+#if __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 8 && defined(CONFIG_AS_DMB_ISHLD)
#define aarch32_smp_mb() dmb(ish)
#define aarch32_smp_rmb() dmb(ishld)
#define aarch32_smp_wmb() dmb(ishst)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
index 1fba0776ed40..22f0d31ea528 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ cc32-disable-warning = $(call try-run,\
$(COMPATCC) -W$(strip $(1)) -c -x c /dev/null -o "$$TMP",-Wno-$(strip
$(1)))
cc32-ldoption = $(call try-run,\
$(COMPATCC) $(1) -nostdlib -x c /dev/null -o "$$TMP",$(1),$(2))
+cc32-as-instr = $(call try-run,\
+ printf "%b\n" "$(1)" | $(COMPATCC) $(VDSO_AFLAGS) -c -x assembler -o
"$$TMP" -,$(2),$(3))
# We cannot use the global flags to compile the vDSO files, the main reason
# being that the 32-bit compiler may be older than the main (64-bit) compiler
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ endif
VDSO_CAFLAGS += -fPIC -fno-builtin -fno-stack-protector
VDSO_CAFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
+
# Try to compile for ARMv8. If the compiler is too old and doesn't support it,
# fall back to v7. There is no easy way to check for what architecture the code
# is being compiled, so define a macro specifying that (see arch/arm/Makefile).
@@ -91,6 +94,12 @@ VDSO_CFLAGS += -Wno-int-to-pointer-cast
VDSO_AFLAGS := $(VDSO_CAFLAGS)
VDSO_AFLAGS += -D__ASSEMBLY__
+# Check for binutils support for dmb ishld
+dmbinstr := $(call cc32-as-instr,dmb ishld,-DCONFIG_AS_DMB_ISHLD=1)
+
+VDSO_CFLAGS += $(dmbinstr)
+VDSO_AFLAGS += $(dmbinstr)
+
VDSO_LDFLAGS := $(VDSO_CPPFLAGS)
# From arm vDSO Makefile
VDSO_LDFLAGS += -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,--no-undefined -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1
--
2.23.0
