[PATCH v2 0/5] Add support for LoongArch32

Tue Dec 30 19:44:23 GMT 2025

On 30/12/25 06:51, mengqinggang wrote:
> Hi Adhemerval,
> 
> If you have time to review and the v5 patches need to be send.
> Please let me know. Thank you very much!

I think you meant v4, since this is latest one in patchwork [1].
And I just realized that loongarch32 official supports was introduced in
Linux 6.19, which is schedule be released only in February 1 [2].

I noticed it when I bootstrapped a loongarch32 and the misc/tst-glibcsyscalls
failed with a lot of errors:

  info: glibc syscall 'semtimedop_time64' not known to kernel
  info: glibc syscall 'io_pgetevents_time64' not known to kernel
  [...]
  error: kernel syscall 'lseek' (62) not known to glibc
  error: kernel syscall 'timer_gettime' (108) not known to glibc
  [...]
  info: glibc tables are based on kernel version 6.17
  info: installed kernel headers are version 6.17

I am not sure if our policy allows ABIs that are in only release Linux
versions, but at least this is what build-many-glibc.py expects (and
what other glibc developers would use to check any breakage on loongarch32).
So I think it would be better to postpone it to glibc 2.44 (and it will
also helps the toolchain version issues I found below).

Besides it, I also found out that although the release branch of binutils
2.45 does support loongarch32, it is not suffice to fully bootstrap a
toolchain with build-many-glibcs. The script fails at stage1 with multiple
assembler issues:

  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s: Assembler messages:
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:33: Error: register save offset not a multiple of 8
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:35: Error: register save offset not a multiple of 8
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:37: Error: register save offset not a multiple of 8
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:38: Error: register save offset not a multiple of 8
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:40: Error: register save offset not a multiple of 8
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:42: Error: register save offset not a multiple of 8
  /tmp/ccxelT0j.s:105: Fatal error: unsupported modifier call30

I think you will need to at least fix it on the release branch (if not
also on possible a release package as well).  I am not sure if this impacts
the glibc build itself, but if it were the case I would expect to have
a configure check to fail early.

It is similar to gcc, where the current bmg will use gcc-15 while loongarch32
targets gcc-16.

I also found a 'make check' build failure that I am not sure why have not
see it as well (I used gcc 16 master branch):

  loongarch32-glibc-linux-gnu-gcc ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-termios-linux.c [...]
  ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-termios-linux.c:167:16: error: ‘cbaud_to_speed’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
  167 | static speed_t cbaud_to_speed (speed_t cbaud)
      |                ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[1] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?submitter=36431
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/1049424/

> 
> 在 2025/12/30 01:31, Andreas K. Huettel 写道:
>> So, after skimming also the threads on gcc and binutils, I'm not really fundamentally
>> opposed to still adding LoongArch32 in 2.43. But- we still need patch review (R-B).
>>
>> My suggestion would be:
>> * If you manage to get a complete review before we start the machine testing (planned
>>    4/January), let's still add it.
>> * Otherwise, let's delay it until after the release and add it to master afterwards.
>>
>>
>> Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2025, 15:25:34 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Adhemerval Zanella Netto:
>>> I think it was sent too late, considering the last version (v4). The patchset
>>> is not large, most of the additions is the abilist files; so I think it should
>>> be feasible to review (assuming some would take this work for 2.43).
>>>
>>> Andreas, do you prefer to postpone to 2.44 or should it be ok for 2.43?
>>>
>>> On 25/12/25 05:06, mengqinggang wrote:
>>>> I send a v4 patch series for LoongArch32.
>>>> The binutils, gcc and kernel upstream master branch have add LoongArch32 support.
>>>> Do we need to wait for them release a new version?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 在 2025/12/22 20:22, Andreas K. Huettel 写道:
>>>>> Am Donnerstag, 18. Dezember 2025, 13:30:06 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb mengqinggang:
>>>>>> Add support for LoongArch32(LA32) with ilp32d abi and
>>>>>> LoongArch32 Reduced(LA32R) with ilp32s abi.
>>>>> Do you intend to have this included in 2.43 ?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would personally rather recommend we add it at earliest immediately after
>>>>> the realease.
>>>>>
>>>>>> The gcc and binutils master branch have added LA32 support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The kernel has added basic LA32 support[6]. But build infrastructures
>>>>>> of LoongArch32 are not enabled yet, because we need to adjust
>>>>>> irqchip drivers and wait for GNU toolchain be upstream first.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can build toolchains by script/build-many-glibcs.py:
>>>>>> LA32 ilp32d abi:
>>>>>> build-many-glibcs.py -j128 --keep all . compilers loongarch32-linux-gnu
>>>>>> LA32R ilp32s abi:
>>>>>> build-many-glibcs.py -j128 --keep all . compilers loongarch32-linux-gnusf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> LA32 tested by qemu-user and qemu-system. Most testcases passed except for several
>>>>>> about gdb and math-fenv on soft float abi.
>>>>>> Tested on LA64 with no regression.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> These patches are based on Jiajie Chen's previous work[1].
>>>>>> A Chinese LA32R instruction set manual is here[2].
>>>>>> There is currently no separate LA32 instruction set manual.
>>>>>> The LA64 instruction set manual[3] specifies the instructions available in LA32.
>>>>>> A LA32 linux system based on qemu user is here[4].
>>>>>> A LA32 linux system based on qemu system is here[5].
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] https://github.com/jiegec/glibc/tree/loongarch32
>>>>>> [2] https://www.loongson.cn/uploads/images/2025032109211238668.%E9%BE%99%E6%9E%B6%E6%9E%8432%E4%BD%8D%E7%B2%BE%E7%AE%80%E7%89%88%E5%8F%82%E8%80%83%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8C_r1p04.pdf
>>>>>> [3] https://github.com/loongson/LoongArch-Documentation/blob/main/docs/LoongArch-Vol1-EN/basic-integer-instructions/overview-of-basic-integer-instructions.adoc
>>>>>> [4] https://github.com/sunhaiyong1978/CLFS-for-LoongArch32/blob/main/Qemu_For_LoongArch32-Simple.md
>>>>>> [5] https://github.com/sunhaiyong1978/CLFS-for-LoongArch32/blob/main/Qemu_System_For_LoongArch32-Simple.md
>>>>>> [6] https://lore.kernel.org/loongarch/176559874944.2388135.2320307195215147125.pr-tracker-bot@kernel.org/T/#t
>>>>>>
>>>
>>
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