Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: lse: fix LSE atomics with LLVM's integrated assembler

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 20:02:05 EST


On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 04:59:25PM -0700, 'Sami Tolvanen' via Clang Built Linux wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 4:31 PM Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This looks good to me. I can build and boot in a model with both Clang
> > (9.0.6) and GCC (7.3.1) and boot a guest without anything going bang.
>
> Great, thank you for testing this!
>
> > Though when I build with AS=clang, e.g.
> >
> > make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- CC=clang AS=clang Image
>
> Note that this patch only fixes issues with inline assembly, which
> should at some point allow us to drop -no-integrated-as from clang
> builds. I believe there are still other fixes needed before AS=clang
> works.
>
> > I get errors like this:
> >
> > CC init/main.o
> > In file included from init/main.c:17:
> > In file included from ./include/linux/module.h:9:
> > In file included from ./include/linux/list.h:9:
> > In file included from ./include/linux/kernel.h:12:
> > In file included from ./include/linux/bitops.h:26:
> > In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/bitops.h:26:
> > In file included from ./include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h:5:
> > In file included from ./include/linux/atomic.h:7:
> > In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h:16:
> > In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:14:
> > In file included from ./arch/arm64/include/asm/lse.h:13:
> > In file included from ./include/linux/jump_label.h:117:
> > ./arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h:24:20: error: expected a symbol reference in '.long' directive
> > " .align 3 \n\t"
> > ^
> > <inline asm>:4:21: note: instantiated into assembly here
> > .long 1b - ., "" - .
> > ^
> >
> > I'm assuming that I'm doing something wrong?
>
> No, this particular issue will be fixed in clang 10:
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/500
>
> Sami

I believe that it should be fixed with AOSP's Clang 9.0.8 or upstream
Clang 9.0.0.

Cheers,
Nathan