Re: clang-nightly: vdso/compat_gettimeofday.h:152:15: error: instruction variant requires ARMv6 or later

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi Naresh,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 05:33:26PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > Following build errors noticed on Linux next-20231204 tag with clang-nightly
> > for arm and arm64.
> > 
> > ## Test Regressions (compared to next-20231201)
> > * arm64, build
> >   - clang-nightly-defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-defconfig-40bc7ee5
> >   - clang-nightly-lkftconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-lkftconfig-kselftest
> > 
> > * arm, build
> >   - clang-nightly-allnoconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-axm55xx_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-bcm2835_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-clps711x_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-exynos_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-imx_v6_v7_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-keystone_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-lkftconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-lkftconfig-kselftest
> >   - clang-nightly-omap2plus_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-pxa910_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-s3c6400_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-s5pv210_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-sama5_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-shmobile_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-tinyconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-u8500_defconfig
> >   - clang-nightly-vexpress_defconfig
> > 
> > 
> > Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > 
> > Build log on arm64:
> > ---------
> > In file included from lib/vdso/gettimeofday.c:5:
> > In file included from include/vdso/datapage.h:135:
> > arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/compat_gettimeofday.h:152:15: error:
> > instruction variant requires ARMv6 or later
> >   152 |         asm volatile("mov %0, %1" : "=r"(ret) : "r"(_vdso_data));
> >       |                      ^
> > <inline asm>:1:2: note: instantiated into assembly here
> >     1 |         mov r4, r1
> >       |         ^

I have to wonder why Clang is complaining about "mov r4, r1" because
that certainly should not require "ARMv6 or later". On the face of it,
this to me looks like a bug in Clang.

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