MIPS: Disable stack checks on MIPS kernels
Disable stack checking on MIPS kernels. Some distribution toolchains
might pass the -fstack-check option to gcc. This results in a
store-doubleword instruction being emitted at the top of all
functions that checks the available stack space. E.g.,
a80000000001d740 <per_cpu_init>:
a80000000001d740: ffa0bfc0 sd zero,-16448(sp)
a80000000001d744: 2405ffc9 li a1,-55
a80000000001d748: 67bdffc0 daddiu sp,sp,-64
Generally, this is undesirable, and especially on the SGI IP27
platform, it will trigger a NULL pointer dereference in
'_raw_spin_lock_irq' during early init.
Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Suggested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15132/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 6ea306b..8ef9c02 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -131,6 +131,21 @@
cflags-$(CONFIG_SB1XXX_CORELIS) += $(call cc-option,-mno-sched-prolog) \
-fno-omit-frame-pointer
+
+# Some distribution-specific toolchains might pass the -fstack-check
+# option during the build, which adds a simple stack-probe at the beginning
+# of every function. This stack probe is to ensure that there is enough
+# stack space, else a SEGV is generated. This is not desirable for MIPS
+# as kernel stacks are small, placed in unmapped virtual memory, and do not
+# grow when overflowed. Especially on SGI IP27 platforms, this check will
+# lead to a NULL pointer dereference in _raw_spin_lock_irq.
+#
+# In disassembly, this stack probe appears at the top of a function as:
+# sd zero,<offset>(sp)
+# Where <offset> is a negative value.
+#
+cflags-y += -fno-stack-check
+
#
# CPU-dependent compiler/assembler options for optimization.
#