Bumping for this to get reviewed+picked up. Fixes a regression I
would prefer didn't ship in 5.7.
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:52 AM Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 2:32 PM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > This is easily reproducible via CC=clang+CONFIG_STAGING=y+CONFIG_VT6656=m.
> >
> > It turns out that if your config tickles __builtin_constant_p via
> > differences in choices to inline or not, these statements produce
> > invalid assembly:
> >
> > $ cat foo.c
> > long a(long b, long c) {
> > asm("orb\t%1, %0" : "+q"(c): "r"(b));
> > return c;
> > }
> > $ gcc foo.c
> > foo.c: Assembler messages:
> > foo.c:2: Error: `%rax' not allowed with `orb'
> >
> > Use the `%b` "x86 Operand Modifier" to instead force register allocation
> > to select a lower-8-bit GPR operand.
> >
> > The "q" constraint only has meaning on -m32 otherwise is treated as
> > "r". Not all GPRs have low-8-bit aliases for -m32.
> >
> > Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeb...@intel.com>
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/961
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200504193524.ga221...@google.com/
> > Link:
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#x86Operandmodifiers
> > Fixes: 1651e700664b4 ("x86: Fix bitops.h warning with a moved cast")
> > Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.di...@gmail.com>
> > Reported-by: kernelci.org bot <b...@kernelci.org>
> > Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevche...@intel.com>
> > Suggested-by: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
> > Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
> > Suggested-by: Ilie Halip <ilie.ha...@gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulni...@google.com>
>
> Reviewed-By: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
