LoongArch glibc can add some LASX/LSX vector instructions codes,
change the required minimum binutils version to 2.41 which could
support vector instructions. HAVE_LOONGARCH_VEC_ASM is removed
accordingly.
Bump autoconf requirement to 2.71 to allow regenerating configure on
more recent distributions. autoconf 2.71 has been in Fedora since F36
and is the current version in Debian stable (bookworm). It appears to
be current in Gentoo as well.
All sysdeps configure and preconfigure scripts have also been
regenerated; all changes are trivial transformations that do not affect
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This patch checks if assembler supports vector instructions to
generate LASX/LSX code or not, and then define HAVE_LOONGARCH_VEC_ASM macro
We have added support for vector instructions in binutils-2.41
See:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=75b2f521b101d974354f6ce9ed7c054d8b2e3b7a
commit 75b2f521b101d974354f6ce9ed7c054d8b2e3b7a
Author: mengqinggang <mengqinggang@loongson.cn>
Date: Thu Jun 22 10:35:28 2023 +0800
LoongArch: gas: Add lsx and lasx instructions support
gas/ChangeLog:
* config/tc-loongarch.c (md_parse_option): Add lsx and lasx option.
(loongarch_after_parse_args): Add lsx and lasx option.
opcodes/ChangeLog:
* loongarch-opc.c (struct loongarch_ase): Add lsx and lasx
instructions.
Before GCC r13-2728, it would produce a normal dynamic-linked executable
with -static-pie. I mistakely believed it would produce a static-linked
executable, so failed to detect the breakage. Then with Binutils 2.40
and (vanilla) GCC 12, libc_cv_static_pie_on_loongarch is mistakenly
enabled and cause a building failure with "undefined reference to
_DYNAMIC".
Fix the issue by disabling static PIE if -static-pie creates something
with a INTERP header.
A start.o compiled from start.S with -DPIC and no -DSHARED is used by
both crt1.o and rcrt1.o. So the LoongArch static PIE patch
unintentionally introduced PC-relative addressing for main and
__libc_start_main into crt1.o.
While the latest Binutils (trunk, which will be released as 2.40)
supports the PC-relative relocs against an external function by creating
a PLT entry, the 2.39 release branch doesn't (and won't) support this.
An error is raised:
"PLT stub does not represent and symbol not defined."
So, we need the following changes:
1. Check if ld supports the PC-relative relocs against an external
function. If it's not supported, we deem static PIE unsupported.
2. Change start.S. If static PIE is supported, use PC-relative
addressing for main and __libc_start_main and rely on the linker to
create PLT entries. Otherwise, restore the old behavior (using GOT
to address these functions).
An alternative would be adding a new "static-pie-start.S", and some
custom logic into Makefile to build rcrt1.o with it. And, restore
start.S to the state before static PIE change so crt1.o won't contain
PC-relative relocs against external symbols. But I can't see any
benefit of this alternative, so I'd just keep it simple.
Tested by building glibc with the following configurations:
1. Binutils trunk + GCC trunk. Static PIE enabled. All tests
passed.
2. Binutils 2.39 branch + GCC trunk. Static PIE disabled. Tests
related to ifunc failed (it's a known issue). All other tests
passed.
3. Binutils 2.39 branch + GCC 12 branch, cross compilation with
build-many-glibcs.py from x86_64-linux-gnu. Static PIE disabled.
Build succeeded.
If the compiler is new enough, enable static PIE support. In the static
PIE version of _start (in rcrt1.o), use la.pcrel instead of la.got
because in a static PIE we cannot use GOT entries until the dynamic
relocations for GOT are resolved.
