Re: [PATCH] bcm: address clang inline asm incompatibility

From: Alex Elder
Date: Wed Jan 28 2015 - 20:48:17 EST


On 01/28/2015 05:15 AM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 28 January 2015 at 05:18, Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> My GCC-based build environment likes to call register r12 by the
>> name "ip" in inline asm. Behan Webster informed me that his Clang-
>> based build environment likes "r12" instead.
>>
>> Try to make them both happy.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c | 9 +++++++--
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c
>> index a55a7ec..3937bd5 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm/bcm_kona_smc.c
>> @@ -106,9 +106,14 @@ int __init bcm_kona_smc_init(void)
>> * request result appropriately. This result value is found in r0
>> * when the "smc" request completes.
>> */
>> +#ifdef __clang__
>> +#define R12 "r12"
>> +#else /* !__clang__ */
>> +#define R12 "ip" /* gcc calls r12 "ip" */
>> +#endif /* !__clang__ */
>
> Why not just use r12 for both?

Yes, that would have been an obvious fix. But the
assembler (in the GCC environment) doesn't accept that.

-Alex

>
>> static int bcm_kona_do_smc(u32 service_id, u32 buffer_phys)
>> {
>> - register u32 ip asm("ip"); /* Also called r12 */
>> + register u32 ip asm(R12); /* Also called r12 */
>> register u32 r0 asm("r0");
>> register u32 r4 asm("r4");
>> register u32 r5 asm("r5");
>> @@ -120,7 +125,7 @@ static int bcm_kona_do_smc(u32 service_id, u32 buffer_phys)
>>
>> asm volatile (
>> /* Make sure we got the registers we want */
>> - __asmeq("%0", "ip")
>> + __asmeq("%0", R12)
>> __asmeq("%1", "r0")
>> __asmeq("%2", "r4")
>> __asmeq("%3", "r5")
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
>>
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