Re: [BUGFIX] Fix AES-NI CTR optimization compiling failure withgas 2.16.1

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Sat Mar 13 2010 - 03:29:17 EST


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:01:47PM +0800, Huang Ying wrote:
> Andrew Morton reported that AES-NI CTR optimization failed to compile
> with gas 2.16.1, the error message is as follow:
>
> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S: Assembler messages:
> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:752: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movq'
> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:753: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `movq'
>
> To fix this, a gas macro is defined to assemble movq with 64bit
> general purpose registers and XMM registers. The macro will generate
> the raw .byte sequence for needed instructions.
>
> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied. Thanks a lot!
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