Re: arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: kernel/rcu/update.o:update.c:(.text+0x1cc4): more undefined references to `__bad_cmpxchg' follow

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu May 30 2024 - 14:21:47 EST


On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 08:05:50PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2024, at 19:24, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 09:37:21AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 30, 2024 at 03:27:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > And for an untested first attempt at a fix.
> >
> > What did I mess up this time? ;-)
> >
>
> I think only the comment:
>
> >
> > switch (size) {
> > -#ifndef CONFIG_CPU_V6 /* min ARCH >= ARMv6K */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_V6 /* min ARCH >= ARMv6K */
> > + case 1:
> > + oldval = cmpxchg_emu_u8((volatile u8 *)ptr, old, new);
> > + break;
> > +#else
>
> "min ARCH >= ARMv6K" now applies to the #else side, while the
> #if side is the early ARMv6 (pre-v6K).

Good catch!

I plan to fold the following into the original with attribution.

Thanx, Paul

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diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index fd9b99f4dca46..34674a4118755 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -162,11 +162,11 @@ static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg(volatile void *ptr, unsigned long old,
prefetchw((const void *)ptr);

switch (size) {
-#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_V6 /* min ARCH >= ARMv6K */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPU_V6 /* min ARCH < ARMv6K */
case 1:
oldval = cmpxchg_emu_u8((volatile u8 *)ptr, old, new);
break;
-#else
+#else /* min ARCH >= ARMv6K */
case 1:
do {
asm volatile("@ __cmpxchg1\n"