Jan-Benedict reported issue with building ppc64e_defconfig with mainline GCC work:
powerpc64-linux-gcc -Wp,-MMD,arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/.gettimeofday-64.o.d -nostdinc -I./arch/powerpc/include -I./arch/powerpc/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/powerpc/include/uapi -I./arch/powerpc/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/compiler-version.h -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -I ./arch/powerpc -DHAVE_AS_ATHIGH=1 -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -D__ASSEMBLY__ -fno-PIE -m64 -Wl,-a64 -mabi=elfv1 -Wa,-me500 -Wa,-me500mc -mabi=elfv1 -mbig-endian -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso64.so.1 -D__VDSO64__ -s -c -o arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday-64.o arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S: Assembler messages: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:72: Error: unrecognized opcode: `stdu' arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:72: Error: unrecognized opcode: `stdu' arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:72: Error: unrecognized opcode: `std' arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:72: Error: unrecognized opcode: `std' arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:72: Error: unrecognized opcode: `ld' arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:72: Error: unrecognized opcode: `ld' ... make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/Makefile:76: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday-64.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/powerpc/Makefile:387: vdso_prepare] Error 2 This is due to assembler being called with -me500mc which is a 32 bits target. The problem comes from the fact that CONFIG_PPC_E500MC is selected for both the e500mc (32 bits) and the e5500 (64 bits), and therefore the following makefile rule is wrong: cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_E500MC) += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-me500mc) Today we have CONFIG_TARGET_CPU which provides the identification of the expected CPU, it is used for GCC. Once GCC knows the target CPU, it adds the correct CPU option to assembler, no need to add it explicitely. With that change (And also commit 825eada7717c ("powerpc/64: Set default CPU in Kconfig")), it now is: powerpc64-linux-gcc -Wp,-MMD,arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/.gettimeofday-64.o.d -nostdinc -I./arch/powerpc/include -I./arch/powerpc/include/generated -I./include -I./arch/powerpc/include/uapi -I./arch/powerpc/include/generated/uapi -I./include/uapi -I./include/generated/uapi -include ./include/linux/compiler-version.h -include ./include/linux/kconfig.h -D__KERNEL__ -I ./arch/powerpc -DHAVE_AS_ATHIGH=1 -fmacro-prefix-map=./= -D__ASSEMBLY__ -fno-PIE -m64 -Wl,-a64 -mabi=elfv1 -mcpu=e500mc64 -mabi=elfv1 -mbig-endian -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso64.so.1 -D__VDSO64__ -s -c -o arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday-64.o arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S Reported-by: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbg...@lug-owl.de> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu> --- v3: Remove -Wa,-mXXX completery as there are additional mismatches between -mcpu and -Wa-m (eg: 8540 vs e500). When given the proper -mcpu=, GCC gives the correct option to assembler. v2: When target cpu is powerpc, the option to be used is -mppc Commit 825eada7717c is in powerpc/next-test branch. Make sure the SHA doesn't change when it goes into powerpc/next --- arch/powerpc/Makefile | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile index bf5f0a998273..0f9f291895cb 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile +++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile @@ -201,18 +201,14 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables # often slow when they are implemented at all KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-mno-string) -cpu-as-$(CONFIG_40x) += -Wa,-m405 -cpu-as-$(CONFIG_44x) += -Wa,-m440 cpu-as-$(CONFIG_ALTIVEC) += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-maltivec) -cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_E500) += -Wa,-me500 # When using '-many -mpower4' gas will first try and find a matching power4 # mnemonic and failing that it will allow any valid mnemonic that GAS knows # about. GCC will pass -many to GAS when assembling, clang does not. # LLVM IAS doesn't understand either flag: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/675 # but LLVM IAS only supports ISA >= 2.06 for Book3S 64 anyway... -cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64) += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mpower4) $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-many) -cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_E500MC) += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-me500mc) +cpu-as-$(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64) += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-many) KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(cpu-as-y) KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(cpu-as-y) -- 2.38.1