Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] arm64: vdso32: Detect binutils support for dmb ishld

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Oct 03 2019 - 16:49:51 EST


On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 01:18:16PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:48 AM Vincenzo Frascino
> <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Older versions of binutils that do not support certain types of memory
> > barriers can cause build failure of the vdso32 library.
>
> Do you know specific version numbers of binutils that are affected?
> May be helpful to have in the commit message just for future
> travelers.

A quick bit of archaeology suggests e797f7e0b2be added this back in 2012,
which seems to correlate with the 2.24 release.

Will