Re: [PATCH FOR-NEXT] riscv: Add norvc after .option arch in runtime const

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Mon Mar 31 2025 - 14:54:56 EST


On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:45:24 PDT (-0700), Charlie Jenkins wrote:
.option arch clobbers .option norvc. Prevent gas from emitting
compressed instructions in the runtime const alternative blocks by
setting .option norvc after .option arch. This issue starts appearing on
gcc 15, which adds zca to the march.

There's some clunkiness around ".option arch" and ".option rvc". So this might be an assembler bug, but IMO it's sane to just work around it in Linux -- at a bare minimum it'll manifest for users, as binutils already released (and GCC 15 is just enabling the Kconfig that triggers the bug).

Reported by: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@xxxxxxxxx>

There shouldn't be a newline here, I'll just drop it.

Signed-off-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: a44fb5722199 ("riscv: Add runtime constant support")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cc8f3525-20b7-445b-877b-2add28a160a2@xxxxxxxxx/
---
arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
index c07d049fdd5d2999c57d8a90e7363829c5462368..451fd76b881152919f22de8f5c56b51171acbf3c 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/runtime-const.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
#define RISCV_RUNTIME_CONST_64_ZBA \
".option push\n\t" \
".option arch,+zba\n\t" \
+ ".option norvc\n\t" \
"slli %[__tmp],%[__tmp],32\n\t" \
"add.uw %[__ret],%[__ret],%[__tmp]\n\t" \
"nop\n\t" \
@@ -65,6 +66,7 @@
#define RISCV_RUNTIME_CONST_64_ZBKB \
".option push\n\t" \
".option arch,+zbkb\n\t" \
+ ".option norvc\n\t" \
"pack %[__ret],%[__ret],%[__tmp]\n\t" \
"nop\n\t" \
"nop\n\t" \

---
base-commit: b2117b630c48be69d2782ed79fefe35dcd192ce6
change-id: 20250331-fix_runtime_const_norvc-407af1f24541

Thanks!