This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: vdso: remove commas between macro name and arguments to the 4.19-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-vdso-remove-commas-between-macro-name-and-arguments.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx Mon May 10 10:02:08 2021 From: Jian Cai <jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 18:25:08 -0700 Subject: arm64: vdso: remove commas between macro name and arguments To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sashal@xxxxxxxxxx, will@xxxxxxxxxx, catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx, nathan@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx, manojgupta@xxxxxxxxxx, llozano@xxxxxxxxxx, clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jian Cai <jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>, linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20210506012508.3822221-1-jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx> From: Jian Cai <jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx> LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes v1 -> v2: Keep the comma in the macro definition to be consistent with other definitions. Changes v2 -> v3: Edit tags. Changes v3 -> v4: Update the commit message based on Nathan's comments. arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ realtime: seqcnt_check fail=realtime get_ts_realtime res_sec=x10, res_nsec=x11, \ clock_nsec=x15, xtime_sec=x13, xtime_nsec=x14, nsec_to_sec=x9 - clock_gettime_return, shift=1 + clock_gettime_return shift=1 ALIGN monotonic: @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ monotonic: clock_nsec=x15, xtime_sec=x13, xtime_nsec=x14, nsec_to_sec=x9 add_ts sec=x10, nsec=x11, ts_sec=x3, ts_nsec=x4, nsec_to_sec=x9 - clock_gettime_return, shift=1 + clock_gettime_return shift=1 ALIGN monotonic_raw: @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ monotonic_raw: clock_nsec=x15, nsec_to_sec=x9 add_ts sec=x10, nsec=x11, ts_sec=x13, ts_nsec=x14, nsec_to_sec=x9 - clock_gettime_return, shift=1 + clock_gettime_return shift=1 ALIGN realtime_coarse: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/arm64-vdso-remove-commas-between-macro-name-and-arguments.patch