This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: Delete the space separator in __emit_inst to the 5.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: arm64-delete-the-space-separator-in-__emit_inst.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit fb7f7d792d09978b2f3f64fdb1df3a598e42c051 Author: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 14 09:32:55 2020 -0700 arm64: Delete the space separator in __emit_inst [ Upstream commit c9a4ef66450145a356a626c833d3d7b1668b3ded ] In assembly, many instances of __emit_inst(x) expand to a directive. In a few places __emit_inst(x) is used as an assembler macro argument. For example, in arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S ALTERNATIVE(nop, SET_PSTATE_PAN(1), ARM64_HAS_PAN, CONFIG_ARM64_PAN) expands to the following by the C preprocessor: alternative_insn nop, .inst (0xd500401f | ((0) << 16 | (4) << 5) | ((!!1) << 8)), 4, 1 Both comma and space are separators, with an exception that content inside a pair of parentheses/quotes is not split, so the clang integrated assembler splits the arguments to: nop, .inst, (0xd500401f | ((0) << 16 | (4) << 5) | ((!!1) << 8)), 4, 1 GNU as preprocesses the input with do_scrub_chars(). Its arm64 backend (along with many other non-x86 backends) sees: alternative_insn nop,.inst(0xd500401f|((0)<<16|(4)<<5)|((!!1)<<8)),4,1 # .inst(...) is parsed as one argument while its x86 backend sees: alternative_insn nop,.inst (0xd500401f|((0)<<16|(4)<<5)|((!!1)<<8)),4,1 # The extra space before '(' makes the whole .inst (...) parsed as two arguments The non-x86 backend's behavior is considered unintentional (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25750). So drop the space separator inside `.inst (...)` to make the clang integrated assembler work. Suggested-by: Ilie Halip <ilie.halip@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/939 Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h index b91570ff9db14..931037500e83c 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h @@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ #ifndef CONFIG_BROKEN_GAS_INST #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ -#define __emit_inst(x) .inst (x) +// The space separator is omitted so that __emit_inst(x) can be parsed as +// either an assembler directive or an assembler macro argument. +#define __emit_inst(x) .inst(x) #else #define __emit_inst(x) ".inst " __stringify((x)) "\n\t" #endif