linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ARM: sunxi: Fix multi-cluster SMP support compilation in multi v6/v7 configs

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Date:   Mon, 19 Feb 2018 09:05:11 +0100
From:   Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@...tlin.com>
To:     Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM: sunxi: Fix multi-cluster SMP support compilation in
 multi v6/v7 configs

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 01:01:12PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> Various parts of the assembly code used in the multi-cluster SMP support
> requires ARMv7-A. If the kernel config also has multi v6 support enabled,
> Kbuild defaults to building for armv6k, which does not support some of
> the instructions we use.
> 
> Configure the Makefile such that the multi-cluster SMP code is always
> built for ARMv7-A. This is also what mach-exynos does for their MC-SMP
> code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>
> ---
> 
> This addresses "[sunxi:sunxi/core-for-4.17 1/4] /tmp/ccSQM2rD.s:438:
> Error: selected processor does not support `isb' in ARM mode"
> reported by the kbuild test robot for arm-allmodconfig.
> 
> Should we apply it, or squash it in the original patch?

I guess we can squash it. And while you're at it..

> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile
> index 3e741e959c7c..3c2c4384357a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI) += sunxi.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_ARCH_SUNXI_MC_SMP) += mc_smp.o
> +CFLAGS_mc_smp.o	+= -march=armv7-a

Can you move it to the first line of the file (before the other obj-*)
with a newline after it?

Thanks!
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://bootlin.com

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