Building DPDK with gcc 11.3.x for the power10 instruction set may
generate the following error:
../drivers/mempool/cnxk/cnxk_mempool_ops.c
during RTL pass: final
../drivers/mempool/cnxk/cnxk_mempool_ops.c:
In function ‘cnxk_mempool_alloc’:
../drivers/mempool/cnxk/cnxk_mempool_ops.c:124:1:
internal compiler error: output_operand: invalid expression as operand
124 | }
| ^
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
...
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
The same issue is not encountered when building with gcc 11.4 or
later, where the compiler automatically adds the option
"-mno-block-ops-vector-pair" when building for power10 which
is intended as a code optimization and also effectively avoids
the compiler bug displayed.
Modify the meson.build file for ppc and manually set the flag when
building for power10 with gcc less than 11.4.
Bugzilla ID: 1251
Signed-off-by: David Christensen <d...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Thinh Tran <thin...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
v2:
- Fixed spelling error in commit message
---
config/ppc/meson.build | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/config/ppc/meson.build b/config/ppc/meson.build
index 1cba44011f..160b203cb1 100644
--- a/config/ppc/meson.build
+++ b/config/ppc/meson.build
@@ -105,6 +105,14 @@ else
endif
endif
machine_args = ['-mcpu=' + cpu_instruction_set, '-mtune=' +
cpu_instruction_set]
+
+# gcc versions < 11.4 may fail to build for power10, see
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251.
+# Explicitly specify a default used in gcc 11.4 and later to workaround the
issue
+if (cpu_instruction_set == 'power10' and cc.get_id() == 'gcc' and
+ cc.version().version_compare('<=11.4'))
+ machine_args += '-mno-block-ops-vector-pair'
+endif
+
dpdk_conf.set('RTE_MACHINE', cpu_instruction_set)
--
2.31.1
