Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Desaulniers <> | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:31:28 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] arm64: fix alternatives with LLVM's integrated assembler |
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:47 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:34 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote: > > Should the definition of the ALTERNATIVE macro > > (arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative.h#L295) also be updated in this > > patch to not pass `1` as the final parameter? > > No, that's the default value for cfg in case the caller omits the > parameter, and it's still needed. > > > I get one error on linux-next that looks related: > > $ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make CC=clang AS=clang > > -j71 arch/arm64/kvm/ > > ... > > This patch only touches the inline assembly version (i.e. when > compiling without -no-integrated-as), while with AS=clang you are > using clang also for stand-alone assembly code. I believe some > additional work is needed before we can do that.
Got it, thanks. Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
> > > arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S:109:87: error: too many positional arguments > > alternative_insn nop, .inst (0xd500401f | ((0) << 16 | (4) << 5) | > > ((!!1) << 8)), 4, 1 > > > > ^ > > > > Since __ALTERNATIVE_CFG now takes one less arg, with your patch? > > __ALTERNATIVE_CFG (with two underscores) is only defined for C code, > and this patch doesn't change the definition of _ALTERNATIVE_CFG (with > one underscore) that's used for stand-alone assembly. > > Sami
-- Thanks, ~Nick Desaulniers
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