Re: [PATCH] riscv: Fix build against binutils 2.38

Heinrich Schuchardt
2022-01-28T18:04:03Z

On 1/28/22 14:47, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> The following description is copied from the equivalent patch for the
> Linux Kernel proposed by Aurelien Jarno:
>
> From version 2.38, binutils default to ISA spec version 20191213. This
> means that the csr read/write (csrr*/csrw*) instructions and fence.i
> instruction has separated from the `I` extension, become two standalone
> extensions: Zicsr and Zifencei. As the kernel uses those instruction,
> this causes the following build failure:
>
> arch/riscv/cpu/mtrap.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/riscv/cpu/mtrap.S:65: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a0,scause'
> arch/riscv/cpu/mtrap.S:66: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a1,sepc'
> arch/riscv/cpu/mtrap.S:67: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrr a2,stval'
> arch/riscv/cpu/mtrap.S:70: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrw sepc,a0'

I tried to build qemu-riscv64_smode_defconfig. With your patch I get

arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c: Assembler messages:
arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c:94: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrs sstatus,a5'
arch/riscv/cpu/cpu.c:95: Error: unrecognized opcode `csrw 0x003,0'

The build flag used is -march=rv64imac.

My toolchain is:
binutils 2.37.90.20220126-0ubuntu1
riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu 10.3.0-8ubuntu1) 10.3.0

This GCC does not support _zicsr_zifencei:
cc1: error: ‘-march=rv64imac_zicsr_zifencei’: unsupported ISA subset ‘z

Could it be that the GCC is too old for the new binutils?
When was the z subset added to GCC?

What about the device trees:

arch/riscv/dts/fu540-c000.dtsi:32:
riscv,isa = "rv64imac";

arch/riscv/dts/fu740-c000.dtsi:34:
riscv,isa = "rv64imac";

arch/riscv/dts/microchip-mpfs.dtsi:28:
riscv,isa = "rv64imac";

Best regards

Heinrich

>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexandre.ghiti@canonical.com>
> ---
> arch/riscv/Makefile | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile
> index 0b80eb8d86..53d1194ffb 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile
> @@ -24,7 +24,16 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_CMODEL_MEDANY),y)
> CMODEL = medany
> endif
>
> -ARCH_FLAGS = -march=$(ARCH_BASE)$(ARCH_A)$(ARCH_C) -mabi=$(ABI) \
> +RISCV_MARCH = $(ARCH_BASE)$(ARCH_A)$(ARCH_C)
> +
> +# Newer binutils versions default to ISA spec version 20191213 which moves some
> +# instructions from the I extension to the Zicsr and Zifencei extensions.
> +toolchain-need-zicsr-zifencei := $(call cc-option-yn, -mabi=$(ABI) -march=$(RISCV_MARCH)_zicsr_zifencei)
> +ifeq ($(toolchain-need-zicsr-zifencei),y)
> + RISCV_MARCH := $(RISCV_MARCH)_zicsr_zifencei
> +endif
> +
> +ARCH_FLAGS = -march=$(RISCV_MARCH) -mabi=$(ABI) \
> -mcmodel=$(CMODEL)
>
> PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += $(ARCH_FLAGS)