Re: next build: 235 warnings 3 failures (next/next-20151117)

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 17 November 2015 16:44:53 Will Deacon wrote:
> > 8<----
> > Subject: ARM64: make smp_load_acquire() work with const arguments
> > 
> > smp_load_acquire() uses typeof() to declare a local variable for temporarily
> > storing the output of the memory access. This fails when the argument is
> > constant, because the assembler complains about using a constant register
> > as output:
> > 
> >  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h:71:3: error: read-only variable '___p1'
> >  used as 'asm' output
> 
> Do you know the usage in the kernel causing this warning?

A newly introduced function in include/net/sock.h:

static inline int sk_state_load(const struct sock *sk)
{
        return smp_load_acquire(&sk->sk_state);
}

	Arnd
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