hexagon: Disable constant extender optimization for LLVM prior to 19.1.0 (details)
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by torvalds
hexagon: Disable constant extender optimization for LLVM prior to 19.1.0
The Hexagon-specific constant extender optimization in LLVM may crash on Linux kernel code [1], such as fs/bcache/btree_io.c after commit 32ed4a620c54 ("bcachefs: Btree path tracepoints") in 6.12:
clang: llvm/lib/Target/Hexagon/HexagonConstExtenders.cpp:745: bool (anonymous namespace)::HexagonConstExtenders::ExtRoot::operator<(const HCE::ExtRoot &) const: Assertion `ThisB->getParent() == OtherB->getParent()' failed. Stack dump: 0. Program arguments: clang --target=hexagon-linux-musl ... fs/bcachefs/btree_io.c 1. <eof> parser at end of file 2. Code generation 3. Running pass 'Function Pass Manager' on module 'fs/bcachefs/btree_io.c'. 4. Running pass 'Hexagon constant-extender optimization' on function '@__btree_node_lock_nopath'
Without assertions enabled, there is just a hang during compilation.
This has been resolved in LLVM main (20.0.0) [2] and backported to LLVM 19.1.0 but the kernel supports LLVM 13.0.1 and newer, so disable the constant expander optimization using the '-mllvm' option when using a toolchain that is not fixed.