Re: [PATCH] ARM: pass -msoft-float to gcc earlier

[Nick Desaulniers]

sorry, hit tab/enter too soon...

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 5:37 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 3:09 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Szabolcs Nagy ran into a kernel build failure with a custom gcc
> > toochain that sets -mfpu=auto -mfloat-abi=hard:
> >
> >  /tmp/ccmNdcdf.s:1898: Error: selected processor does not support `cpsid i' in ARM mode
> >
> > The problem is that $(call cc-option, -march=armv7-a) fails before the
> > kernel overrides the gcc options to also pass -msoft-float.
>
> The call to `$(call cc-option, -march=armv7-a) is th

The call to `$(call cc-option, -march=armv7-a) is the one that fails or...?

>
> >
> > Move the option to the beginning the Makefile, before we call
>
> beginning of the
>
> > cc-option for the first time.
> >
> > Reported-by: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@xxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87302
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Moving this looks harmless enough, though it's not clear to me how the
> failure you're describing would occur.  I don't see calls to as-instr
> in arch/arm/Makefile.  Which object is being built before -msoft-float
> is being set?

... ^

>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/Makefile | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/Makefile b/arch/arm/Makefile
> > index 7d5cd0f85461..e428ea6eb0fa 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/arm/Makefile
> > @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ LDFLAGS_vmlinux       += --be8
> >  KBUILD_LDFLAGS_MODULE  += --be8
> >  endif
> >
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS  += -msoft-float
> > +
> >  ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS),y)
> >  KBUILD_LDS_MODULE      += $(srctree)/arch/arm/kernel/module.lds
> >  endif
> > @@ -135,7 +137,7 @@ AFLAGS_ISA  :=$(CFLAGS_ISA)
> >  endif
> >
> >  # Need -Uarm for gcc < 3.x
> > -KBUILD_CFLAGS  +=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(CFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,)) -msoft-float -Uarm
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS  +=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(CFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) $(call cc-option,-mshort-load-bytes,$(call cc-option,-malignment-traps,)) -Uarm
> >  KBUILD_AFLAGS  +=$(CFLAGS_ABI) $(AFLAGS_ISA) $(arch-y) $(tune-y) -include asm/unified.h -msoft-float
> >
> >  CHECKFLAGS     += -D__arm__
> > --
> > 2.26.2
> >

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers