[PATCH] ARM: Allow pre-ARMv5 builds with ld.lld 16.0.0 and newer

Nathan Chancellor
2023-01-18T19:24:34Z

Commit 6a7ee50f8f56 ("ARM: disallow pre-ARMv5 builds with ld.lld")
prevented v4 or v4t kernels when ld.lld will link the kernel due to
inserting unsupported blx instructions.

ld.lld has been fixed in current main (16.0.0) to avoid inserting these
instructions by inserting position independent thunks instead. Allow
these configurations to be enabled when ld.lld 16.0.0 is used to link
the kernel.

Additionally, add a link to the upstream LLVM issue so that the reason
for this dependency is clearly documented.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/964
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/6f9ff1beee9d12aca0c9caa9ae0051dc6d0a718c
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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I just build tested:

- multi_v4t_defconfig without 6a7ee50f8f56 with LLVM 15: warning
- multi_v4t_defconfig with this patch with LLVM 16: no warning

and the configuration cannot be selected under the old and new conditions
still.
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arch/arm/Kconfig | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 43c7773b89ae..874c5b56cf9a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -345,14 +345,16 @@ comment "CPU Core family selection"
config ARCH_MULTI_V4
bool "ARMv4 based platforms (FA526, StrongARM)"
depends on !ARCH_MULTI_V6_V7
- depends on !LD_IS_LLD
+ # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50764
+ depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 160000
select ARCH_MULTI_V4_V5
select CPU_FA526 if !(CPU_SA110 || CPU_SA1100)

config ARCH_MULTI_V4T
bool "ARMv4T based platforms (ARM720T, ARM920T, ...)"
depends on !ARCH_MULTI_V6_V7
- depends on !LD_IS_LLD
+ # https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/50764
+ depends on !LD_IS_LLD || LLD_VERSION >= 160000
select ARCH_MULTI_V4_V5
select CPU_ARM920T if !(CPU_ARM7TDMI || CPU_ARM720T || \
CPU_ARM740T || CPU_ARM9TDMI || CPU_ARM922T || \

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base-commit: 5dc4c995db9eb45f6373a956eb1f69460e69e6d4
change-id: 20230118-v4-v4t-lld-16-96d5d5cc36c2

Best regards,
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Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>