Re: [PATCH] arm64: fix alternatives with LLVM's integrated assembler

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 4:47 PM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:34 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> > 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



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~Nick Desaulniers