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| author | Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com> | 2026-09-16 23:00:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2026-09-18 21:43:38 -0700 |
| commit | 63edf5a009ae366369a1b484cd9ae4ee7c51946c (patch) | |
| tree | 6aeb55001f4dc896927a5a2763fc0da72c37178c /scripts | |
| parent | 96443a53bc3ef4b67dab0c497878fc8d56f799f3 (diff) | |
x86/build/64: Prevent native builds from generating EGPR use
Omar reports that CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU=y allows builds to opportunistically
emit instructions using %r16-%r31 (EGPRs) when the build host supports APX
since the commit:
ea1dcca1de12 ("x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'")
But the kernel is not yet prepared to use new registers internally. For
example, there is no context-switch support for general in-kernel use.
Explicitly disable EGPR use when building with -march=native.
For C, since GCC 14 and Clang 18, both compilers support suppressing EGPR
use with -mno-apx-features=egpr, whose availability can be detected via
cc-option.
For Rust, pass features=-apxf through the generated JSON to avoid
unstable-feature warnings, see
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/139284
Note Rust only accepts the option to disable APX instructions entirely or not.
Support for this gating also depends on the Rust/LLVM combination. Rust
1.88 introduced the `apxf` feature option, but versions prior to 1.93 may
emit an `apxf` attribute to the backend that only LLVM 23 or later can
interpret. Restrict native Rust builds accordingly.
Fixes: ea1dcca1de12 ("x86/kbuild/64: Add the CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU option to locally optimize the kernel with '-march=native'")
Reported-by: Omar Avelar <omar.avelar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260916230003.1144622-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/generate_rust_target.rs | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs b/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs index 3bf296581a88..7687b0dd5474 100644 --- a/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs +++ b/scripts/generate_rust_target.rs @@ -224,6 +224,11 @@ fn main() { features += ",+harden-sls-ijmp"; features += ",+harden-sls-ret"; } + if cfg.has("X86_NATIVE_CPU") { + // Prevent the backend from generating APX instructions. The kernel is not yet prepared + // for general in-kernel EGPR use. + features += ",-apxf"; + } ts.push("features", features); ts.push("llvm-target", "x86_64-linux-gnu"); ts.push("supported-sanitizers", ["kcfi", "kernel-address"]); |
