I've been doing builds of linux-2.6.11 as a sanity check
for new versions of gcc, and a problem just popped up
in arch/alpha/Makefile (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-07/msg00397.html)
I think I can work around this myself by using CONFIG_ALPHA_EV6
instead of CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC, but here's my analysis
of the problem; maybe the alpha kernel maintainer can take it from here?
Take the following with a grain of salt; I don't know much
about alpha or gcc, I'm just doing a little QA.
arch/alpha/Makefile says:
36 # If GENERIC, make sure to turn off any instruction set extensions that
37 # the host compiler might have on by default. Given that EV4 and EV5
38 # have the same instruction set, prefer EV5 because an EV5 schedule is
39 # more likely to keep an EV4 processor busy than vice-versa.
40 ifeq ($(CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC),y)
41 mcpu := ev5
42 mcpu_done := y
43 endif
...
84 # For TSUNAMI, we must have the assembler not emulate our instructions.
85 # The same is true for IRONGATE, POLARIS, PYXIS.
86 # BWX is most important, but we don't really want any emulation ever.
87 CFLAGS += $(cflags-y) -Wa,-mev6
Thus when you pick CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC, gcc is invoked with
the contradictory options -mcpu=ev5 -Wa,-mev6
This probably means that even on ev5, some ev6 instructions are used.
In particular, see include/asm-alpha/compiler.h:
#if defined(__alpha_bwx__)
#define __kernel_ldbu(mem) (mem)
#define __kernel_ldwu(mem) (mem)
#define __kernel_stb(val,mem) ((mem) = (val))
#define __kernel_stw(val,mem) ((mem) = (val))
#else
#define __kernel_ldbu(mem) \
({ unsigned char __kir; \
__asm__("ldbu %0,%1" : "=r"(__kir) : "m"(mem)); \
__kir; })
That inline assembly is fine on ev5, but only if the assembler
is emulating the ldbu instruction with a macro -- exactly
the kind of thing arch/alpha/Makefile is trying to
inhibit when it says -Wa,-mev6.
This is an issue now because building the kernel with CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC
fails on the current gcc-4.1 snapshot with
> {standard input}:496: Error: macro requires $at register while noat in effect
> make[1]: *** [arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.o] Error 1
and it looks like a kernel problem, not a gcc problem:
don't try to use ev6 instructions on ev5 or earlier processors.
That probably means conditionalizing that -Wa,ev6 properly,
but if that's hard, maybe it means dropping support for ev4 and ev5 processors,
and mapping CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC to ev6. I wouldn't know...
- Dan
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