Re: [PATCH 0/8] s390: allow to build with llvm's integrated assembler

[Heiko Carstens]

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 12:48:34PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 5:05 AM Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A couple of patches which in result make it finally possible to build the
> > kernel for s390 with llvm's integrated assembler. Several configs build
> > without errors or warnings, and the kernel also works as expected.
> >
> > Note that patch 6 ("s390/boot: workaround llvm IAS bug") reveals a
> > miscompile. This looks like a bug in the instruction definitions of the mvc
> > and clc instructions(?). I'd like to ask people to look into this, since
> > this silently generated broken code.
> >
> > This patch series is based on linux-next, which contains two additional
> > required s390 specific patches to make llvm's IAS work.
> 
> I did a quick test of just a defconfig via:
> $ ARCH=s390 CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu- make CC=clang -j72 defconfig all
> and this assembled then booted in qemu for me. Thanks for the work
> that went into this!
> 
> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will add this too. Thank you!