Thread (35 messages) 35 messages, 5 authors, 2020-03-31
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Revisions (2)
  1. v1 [diff vs current]
  2. v2 current

[PATCH v2 11/16] x86: add comments about the binutils version to support code in as-instr

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-03-26 08:03:59
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers: Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen

We raise the minimal supported binutils version from time to time.
The last bump was commit 1fb12b35e5ff ("kbuild: Raise the minimum
required binutils version to 2.21").

We need to keep these as-instr checks because binutils 2.21 does not
support them.

I hope this will be a good hint which one can be dropped when we
bump the minimal binutils version next time.

As for the Clang/LLVM builds, we require very new LLVM version,
so the LLVM integrated assembler supports all of them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
---

Changes in v2:
  - Change the patch order and rebase

 arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
index 91230bf11a14..a5a1d2766b3a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.assembler
@@ -3,15 +3,25 @@
 
 config AS_AVX2
 	def_bool $(as-instr,vpbroadcastb %xmm0$(comma)%ymm1)
+	help
+	  Supported by binutils >= 2.22 and LLVM integrated assembler
 
 config AS_AVX512
 	def_bool $(as-instr,vpmovm2b %k1$(comma)%zmm5)
+	help
+	  Supported by binutils >= 2.25 and LLVM integrated assembler
 
 config AS_SHA1_NI
 	def_bool $(as-instr,sha1msg1 %xmm0$(comma)%xmm1)
+	help
+	  Supported by binutils >= 2.24 and LLVM integrated assembler
 
 config AS_SHA256_NI
 	def_bool $(as-instr,sha256msg1 %xmm0$(comma)%xmm1)
+	help
+	  Supported by binutils >= 2.24 and LLVM integrated assembler
 
 config AS_ADX
 	def_bool $(as-instr,adox %eax$(comma)%eax)
+	help
+	  Supported by binutils >= 2.23 and LLVM integrated assembler
-- 
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