Currently the boot wrapper lacks a -mcpu option, so it will be built for the toolchain's default cpu. This is a problem if the toolchain defaults to a cpu with newer instructions.
We could wire in TARGET_CPU but instead use the oldest supported option so the wrapper runs anywhere. The GCC documentation stays that -mcpu=powerpc64le will give us a generic 64 bit powerpc machine: -mcpu=powerpc, -mcpu=powerpc64, and -mcpu=powerpc64le specify pure 32-bit PowerPC (either endian), 64-bit big endian PowerPC and 64-bit little endian PowerPC architecture machine types, with an appropriate, generic processor model assumed for scheduling purposes. So do that for each of the three machines. This bug was found when building the kernel with a toolchain that defaulted to powre10, resulting in a pcrel enabled wrapper which fails to link: arch/powerpc/boot/wrapper.a(crt0.o): in function `p_base': (.text+0x150): call to `platform_init' lacks nop, can't restore toc; (toc save/adjust stub) (.text+0x154): call to `start' lacks nop, can't restore toc; (toc save/adjust stub) powerpc64le-buildroot-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: bad value Even with tha bug worked around the resulting kernel would crash on a power9 box: $ qemu-system-ppc64 -nographic -nodefaults -M powernv9 -kernel arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.epapr -serial mon:stdio [ 7.069331356,5] INIT: Starting kernel at 0x20010020, fdt at 0x3068c628 25694 bytes [ 7.130374661,3] *********************************************** [ 7.131072886,3] Fatal Exception 0xe40 at 00000000200101e4 MSR 9000000000000001 [ 7.131290613,3] CFAR : 000000002001027c MSR : 9000000000000001 [ 7.131433759,3] SRR0 : 0000000020010050 SRR1 : 9000000000000001 [ 7.131577775,3] HSRR0: 00000000200101e4 HSRR1: 9000000000000001 [ 7.131733687,3] DSISR: 00000000 DAR : 0000000000000000 [ 7.131905162,3] LR : 0000000020010280 CTR : 0000000000000000 [ 7.132068356,3] CR : 44002004 XER : 00000000 Link: https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/400 Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <j...@jms.id.au> --- Tested: - ppc64le_defconfig - pseries and powernv qemu, for power8, power9, power10 cpus - buildroot compiler that defaults to -mcpu=power10 (gcc 10.3.0, ld 2.36.1) - RHEL9 cross compilers (gcc 11.2.1-1, ld 2.35.2-17.el9) All decompressed and made it into the kernel ok. ppc64_defconfig did not work, as we've got a regression when the wrapper is built for big endian. It hasn't worked for zImage.pseries for a long time (at least v4.14), and broke some time between v5.4 and v5.17 for zImage.epapr. arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile index 9993c6256ad2..1f5cc401bfc0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile @@ -38,9 +38,13 @@ BOOTCFLAGS := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \ $(LINUXINCLUDE) ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER -BOOTCFLAGS += -m64 +ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN +BOOTCFLAGS += -m64 -mcpu=powerpc64le else -BOOTCFLAGS += -m32 +BOOTCFLAGS += -m64 -mcpu=powerpc64 +endif +else +BOOTCFLAGS += -m32 -mcpu=powerpc endif BOOTCFLAGS += -isystem $(shell $(BOOTCC) -print-file-name=include) -- 2.35.1
