Patch "ARM: kvm: fix building with gcc-8" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ARM: kvm: fix building with gcc-8

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     arm-kvm-fix-building-with-gcc-8.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 67870eb1204223598ea6d8a4467b482e9f5875b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:07:34 +0100
Subject: ARM: kvm: fix building with gcc-8

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

commit 67870eb1204223598ea6d8a4467b482e9f5875b5 upstream.

In banked-sr.c, we use a top-level '__asm__(".arch_extension virt")'
statement to allow compilation of a multi-CPU kernel for ARMv6
and older ARMv7-A that don't normally support access to the banked
registers.

This is considered to be a programming error by the gcc developers
and will no longer work in gcc-8, where we now get a build error:

/tmp/cc4Qy7GR.s:34: Error: Banked registers are not available with this architecture. -- `mrs r3,SP_usr'
/tmp/cc4Qy7GR.s:41: Error: Banked registers are not available with this architecture. -- `mrs r3,ELR_hyp'
/tmp/cc4Qy7GR.s:55: Error: Banked registers are not available with this architecture. -- `mrs r3,SP_svc'
/tmp/cc4Qy7GR.s:62: Error: Banked registers are not available with this architecture. -- `mrs r3,LR_svc'
/tmp/cc4Qy7GR.s:69: Error: Banked registers are not available with this architecture. -- `mrs r3,SPSR_svc'
/tmp/cc4Qy7GR.s:76: Error: Banked registers are not available with this architecture. -- `mrs r3,SP_abt'

Passign the '-march-armv7ve' flag to gcc works, and is ok here, because
we know the functions won't ever be called on pre-ARMv7VE machines.
Unfortunately, older compiler versions (4.8 and earlier) do not understand
that flag, so we still need to keep the asm around.

Backporting to stable kernels (4.6+) is needed to allow those to be built
with future compilers as well.

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84129
Fixes: 33280b4cd1dc ("ARM: KVM: Add banked registers save/restore")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile    |    5 +++++
 arch/arm/kvm/hyp/banked-sr.c |    4 ++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/Makefile
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ ccflags-y += -fno-stack-protector -DDISA
 
 KVM=../../../../virt/kvm
 
+CFLAGS_ARMV7VE		   :=$(call cc-option, -march=armv7ve)
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/hyp/vgic-v2-sr.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/hyp/vgic-v3-sr.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += $(KVM)/arm/hyp/timer-sr.o
@@ -14,7 +16,10 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += tlb.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += cp15-sr.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += vfp.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += banked-sr.o
+CFLAGS_banked-sr.o	   += $(CFLAGS_ARMV7VE)
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += entry.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += hyp-entry.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += switch.o
+CFLAGS_switch.o		   += $(CFLAGS_ARMV7VE)
 obj-$(CONFIG_KVM_ARM_HOST) += s2-setup.o
--- a/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/banked-sr.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/hyp/banked-sr.c
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 
 #include <asm/kvm_hyp.h>
 
+/*
+ * gcc before 4.9 doesn't understand -march=armv7ve, so we have to
+ * trick the assembler.
+ */
 __asm__(".arch_extension     virt");
 
 void __hyp_text __banked_save_state(struct kvm_cpu_context *ctxt)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@arndb.de are

queue-4.9/tpm-constify-transmit-data-pointers.patch
queue-4.9/arm-kvm-fix-building-with-gcc-8.patch