Re: [PATCH 0/8] selftests: x86: build suite with clang

[Muhammad Usama Anjum]

On 5/1/24 6:29 AM, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
> This series fixes build errors found by clang to allow the x86 suite to
> get built with the clang.
> 
> Unfortunately, there is one bug [1] in the clang becuase of which
> extended asm isn't handled correctly by it and build fails for
> sysret_rip.c. Hence even after this series the build of this test would
> fail with clang. Should we disable this test for now when clang is used
> until the bug is fixed in clang? Not sure. Any opinions?
Its seems like the bug has been fixed in clang. I'll verify it in next
release and draft a patch separately to fix that error.

I think this series is good to accept then.

> 
> [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53728
> 
> Muhammad Usama Anjum (8):
>   selftests: x86: Remove dependence of headers file
>   selftests: x86: check_initial_reg_state: remove -no-pie while using
>     -static
>   selftests: x86: test_vsyscall: remove unused function
>   selftests: x86: fsgsbase_restore: fix asm directive from =rm to =r
>   selftests: x86: syscall_arg_fault_32: remove unused variable
>   selftests: x86: test_FISTTP: use fisttps instead of ambigous fisttp
>   selftests: x86: fsgsbase: Remove unused function and variable
>   selftests: x86: amx: Remove unused functions
> 
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/Makefile            |  9 +++++----
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/amx.c               | 16 ----------------
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase.c          |  6 ------
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/fsgsbase_restore.c  |  2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/syscall_arg_fault.c |  1 -
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/test_FISTTP.c       |  8 ++++----
>  tools/testing/selftests/x86/test_vsyscall.c     |  5 -----
>  7 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
> 

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BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum