[PATCH] powerpc/64be: option to use ELFv2 ABI for big endian kernels

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Sat Nov 26 14:33:38 AEDT 2016


Provide an option to use ELFv2 ABI for big endian builds. The
toolchain check can't be done at configure-time, so the way this
option is provided can result in unbuildable kernel on older
toolchains. Being experimental expert option there isn't a need
to add a lot of fallback logic to make this build.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig            | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/Makefile           | 17 +++++++++++------
 arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile      |  2 ++
 drivers/crypto/vmx/Makefile     |  6 +++++-
 drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl |  2 +-
 drivers/crypto/vmx/ppc-xlate.pl | 11 +++++++----
 6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 65fba4c..e0d0458 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ config PPC
 	select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
 	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
 	select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
+	select BUILD_ELF_V2 if PPC64 && CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 	select NO_BOOTMEM
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
 	select HAVE_PERF_EVENTS_NMI if PPC64
@@ -455,6 +456,22 @@ config KEXEC
 	  interface is strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be
 	  made.
 
+config BUILD_ELF_V2
+bool "Build using ELFv2 ABI (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+	depends on PPC64 && EXPERT
+	default n
+	help
+	  This builds the kernel image using the ELFv2 ABI, which has a
+	  reduced stack overhead and faster function calls. This does not
+	  affect the userspace ABIs.
+
+	  This is always enabled on little-endian builds. For big-endian
+	  this is an experimental option that is not well tested (kernel
+	  and toolchain).
+
+	  This requires gcc 4.9 or newer and binutils 2.24 or newer. This
+	  is currently an experimental option
+
 config RELOCATABLE
 	bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
 	depends on (PPC64 && !COMPILE_TEST) || (FLATMEM && (44x || FSL_BOOKE))
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
index 6575b7e..b8b81be 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Makefile
@@ -72,19 +72,23 @@ GNUTARGET	:= powerpc
 MULTIPLEWORD	:= -mmultiple
 endif
 
+ifdef CONFIG_BUILD_ELF_V2
+cflags-y				+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2,$(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc))
+aflags-y				+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2)
+else
+cflags-y				+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
+cflags-y				+= $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
+aflags-y				+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
+endif
+
 cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
 cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mlittle-endian
-cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mabi=elfv2
 ifneq ($(cc-name),clang)
   cflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mno-strict-align
 endif
 
 aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mbig-endian)
-aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN)		+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
 aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mlittle-endian
-aflags-$(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN)	+= -mabi=elfv2
 
 ifeq ($(HAS_BIARCH),y)
 override AS	+= -a$(BITS)
@@ -114,7 +118,7 @@ endif
 endif
 
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	:= $(call cc-option,-mtraceback=no)
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN),y)
+ifdef CONFIG_BUILD_ELF_V2
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2,$(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc))
 AFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2)
 else
@@ -122,6 +126,7 @@ CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mcall-aixdesc)
 AFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv1)
 endif
+
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mcmodel=medium,$(call cc-option,-mminimal-toc))
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC64)	+= $(call cc-option,-mno-pointers-to-nested-functions)
 CFLAGS-$(CONFIG_PPC32)	:= -ffixed-r2 $(MULTIPLEWORD)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
index 7c46cf3..0442516 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ BOOTCFLAGS    := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
 # PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER is little-endian specific.
 ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER
 BOOTCFLAGS	+= -m64
+ifdef CONFIG_BUILD_ELF_V2
 BOOTCFLAGS	+= $(call cc-option,-mabi=elfv2)
 endif
+endif
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN
 BOOTCFLAGS	+= -mbig-endian
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/Makefile b/drivers/crypto/vmx/Makefile
index de6e241..b47da00 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/Makefile
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 obj-$(CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_VMX_ENCRYPT) += vmx-crypto.o
 vmx-crypto-objs := vmx.o aesp8-ppc.o ghashp8-ppc.o aes.o aes_cbc.o aes_ctr.o aes_xts.o ghash.o
 
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN),y)
+ifdef CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 TARGET := linux-ppc64le
 else
+ifdef CONFIG_BUILD_ELF_V2
+TARGET := linux-ppc64v2
+else
 TARGET := linux-ppc64
 endif
+endif
 
 quiet_cmd_perl = PERL $@
       cmd_perl = $(PERL) $(<) $(TARGET) > $(@)
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl
index 0b4a293..6d423f6 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl
+++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ if ($flavour =~ /64/) {
 	$SHL	="slwi";
 } else { die "nonsense $flavour"; }
 
-$LITTLE_ENDIAN = ($flavour=~/le$/) ? $SIZE_T : 0;
+$LITTLE_ENDIAN = ($flavour=~/ppc64le/) ? $SIZE_T : 0;
 
 $0 =~ m/(.*[\/\\])[^\/\\]+$/; $dir=$1;
 ( $xlate="${dir}ppc-xlate.pl" and -f $xlate ) or
diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/ppc-xlate.pl b/drivers/crypto/vmx/ppc-xlate.pl
index b18e67d..0355a1e 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/ppc-xlate.pl
+++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/ppc-xlate.pl
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ open STDOUT,">$output" || die "can't open $output: $!";
 
 my %GLOBALS;
 my $dotinlocallabels=($flavour=~/linux/)?1:0;
+my $abielfv2=(($flavour =~ /linux-ppc64le/) or ($flavour =~ /linux-ppc64v2/))?1:0;
+my $dotfunctions=($abielfv2=~1)?0:1;
 
 ################################################################
 # directives which need special treatment on different platforms
@@ -37,9 +39,10 @@ my $globl = sub {
     $$global = $name;
     $ret;
 };
+
 my $text = sub {
     my $ret = ($flavour =~ /aix/) ? ".csect\t.text[PR],7" : ".text";
-    $ret = ".abiversion	2\n".$ret	if ($flavour =~ /linux.*64le/);
+    $ret = ".abiversion	2\n".$ret	if ($abielfv2);
     $ret;
 };
 my $machine = sub {
@@ -55,8 +58,8 @@ my $size = sub {
     if ($flavour =~ /linux/)
     {	shift;
 	my $name = shift; $name =~ s|^[\.\_]||;
-	my $ret  = ".size	$name,.-".($flavour=~/64$/?".":"").$name;
-	$ret .= "\n.size	.$name,.-.$name" if ($flavour=~/64$/);
+	my $ret  = ".size	$name,.-".($dotfunctions?".":"").$name;
+	$ret .= "\n.size	.$name,.-.$name" if ($dotfunctions);
 	$ret;
     }
     else
@@ -141,7 +144,7 @@ my $vmr = sub {
 
 # Some ABIs specify vrsave, special-purpose register #256, as reserved
 # for system use.
-my $no_vrsave = ($flavour =~ /linux-ppc64le/);
+my $no_vrsave = ($abielfv2);
 my $mtspr = sub {
     my ($f,$idx,$ra) = @_;
     if ($idx == 256 && $no_vrsave) {
-- 
2.10.2



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