Some versions of GCC suboptimally generate calls to the __multi3()
intrinsic for MIPS64r6 builds, resulting in link failures due to the
missing function:
LD vmlinux.o
MODPOST vmlinux.o
kernel/bpf/verifier.o: In function `kmalloc_array':
include/linux/slab.h:631: undefined reference to `__multi3'
fs/select.o: In function `kmalloc_array':
include/linux/slab.h:631: undefined reference to `__multi3'
...
We already have a workaround for this in which we provide the
instrinsic, but we do so selectively for GCC 7 only. Unfortunately the
issue occurs with older GCC versions too - it has been observed with
both GCC 5.4.0 & GCC 6.4.0.
MIPSr6 support was introduced in GCC 5, so all major GCC versions prior
to GCC 8 are affected and we extend our workaround accordingly to all
MIPS64r6 builds using GCC versions older than GCC 8.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Reported-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com>
Fixes: ebabcf17bc ("MIPS: Implement __multi3 for GCC7 MIPS64r6 builds")
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20297/
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.15+
GCC7 is a bit too eager to generate suboptimal __multi3 calls (128bit
multiply with 128bit result) for MIPS64r6 builds, even in code which
doesn't explicitly use 128bit types, such as the following:
unsigned long func(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
return a > (~0UL) / b;
}
Which GCC rearanges to:
return (unsigned __int128)a * (unsigned __int128)b > 0xffffffffffffffff;
Therefore implement __multi3, but only for MIPS64r6 with GCC7 as under
normal circumstances we wouldn't expect any calls to __multi3 to be
generated from kernel code.
Reported-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
Cc: Matthew Fortune <matthew.fortune@mips.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/17890/
Paul Burton
James Hogan