On 5/5/2021 6:25 PM, Jian Cai wrote:
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>
Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks for the updated example and explanation, this looks good to me now.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
index 856fee6d3512..b6faf8b5d1fe 100644
--- 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:
