LoongArch: Adjust symbol addressing for AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS

If explicit relocation hints are used by the toolchain, -Wa,-mla-*
options will be useless for the C code. So only use them for the
!CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS case.

Replace "la" with "la.pcrel" in head.S to keep the semantic consistent
with new and old toolchains for the low level startup code.

For per-CPU variables, the "address" of the symbol is actually an offset
from $r21. The value is near the loading address of main kernel image,
but far from the loading address of modules. So we use model("extreme")
attibute to tell the compiler that a PC-relative addressing with 32-bit
offset is not sufficient for local per-CPU variables.

The behavior with different assemblers and compilers are summarized in
the following table:

AS has            CC has
explicit relocs   explicit relocs * Behavior
==============================================================
No                No                Use la.* macros.
                                    No change from Linux 6.0.
--------------------------------------------------------------
No                Yes               Disable explicit relocs.
                                    No change from Linux 6.0.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Yes               No                Not supported.
--------------------------------------------------------------
Yes               Yes               Enable explicit relocs.
                                    No -Wa,-mla* options used.
==============================================================
*: We assume CC must have model attribute if it has explicit relocs.
   Both features are added in GCC 13 development cycle, so any GCC
   release >= 13 should be OK. Using early GCC 13 development snapshots
   may produce modules with unsupported relocations.

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=f09482a
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/r13-1834
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/r13-2199
Tested-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
index 84689c3ee3af..42352f905858 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
@@ -43,10 +43,28 @@ endif
 
 cflags-y			+= -G0 -pipe -msoft-float
 LDFLAGS_vmlinux			+= -G0 -static -n -nostdlib
+
+# When the assembler supports explicit relocation hint, we must use it.
+# GCC may have -mexplicit-relocs off by default if it was built with an old
+# assembler, so we force it via an option.
+#
+# When the assembler does not supports explicit relocation hint, we can't use
+# it.  Disable it if the compiler supports it.
+#
+# If you've seen "unknown reloc hint" message building the kernel and you are
+# now wondering why "-mexplicit-relocs" is not wrapped with cc-option: the
+# combination of a "new" assembler and "old" compiler is not supported.  Either
+# upgrade the compiler or downgrade the assembler.
+ifdef CONFIG_AS_HAS_EXPLICIT_RELOCS
+cflags-y			+= -mexplicit-relocs
+KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL		+= -mdirect-extern-access
+else
+cflags-y			+= $(call cc-option,-mno-explicit-relocs)
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL		+= -Wa,-mla-global-with-pcrel
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL		+= -Wa,-mla-global-with-pcrel
 KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE		+= -Wa,-mla-global-with-abs
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE		+= -fplt -Wa,-mla-global-with-abs,-mla-local-with-abs
+endif
 
 cflags-y += -ffreestanding
 cflags-y += $(call cc-option, -mno-check-zero-division)