Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org> says:

From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

This came up due to a report from Kevin @ kernel-ci, who had been
running a mixed configuration of GNU binutils and clang. Their compiler
was relatively recent & supports Zicbom but binutils @ 2.35.2 did not.

Our current checks for extension support only cover the compiler, but it
appears to me that we need to check both the compiler & linker support
in case of "pot-luck" configurations that mix different versions of
LD,AS,CC etc.

Linker support does not seem possible to actually check, since the ISA
string is emitted into the object files - so I put in version checks for
that. The checks have gotten a bit ugly since 32 & 64 bit support need
to be checked independently but ahh well.

As I was going, I fell into the trap of there being duplicated checks
for CC support in both the Makefile and Kconfig, so as part of renaming
the Kconfig symbol to TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FOO, I dropped the extra checks in
the Makefile. This has the added advantage of the TOOLCHAIN_HAS_FOO
symbol for Zihintpause appearing in .config.

I pushed out a version of this that specificly checked for assember
support for LKP to test & it looked /okay/ - but I did some more testing
today and realised that this is redudant & have since dropped the as
check.

I tested locally with a fair few different combinations, to try and
cover each of AS, LD, CC missing support for the extension.

* b4-shazam-merge:
  riscv: fix detection of toolchain Zihintpause support
  riscv: fix detection of toolchain Zicbom support

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006173520.1785507-1-conor@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>