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GCC 4.9 seems to have a problem with the "S" asm constraint
when the symbol lives in the same compilation unit, and pretends
the constraint is impossible:
$ cat x.c
void *foo(void)
{
static int x;
int *addr;
asm("adrp %0, %1" : "=r" (addr) : "S" (&x));
return addr;
}
$ ~/Work/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.9-2014.09_linux/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc -S -x c -O2 x.c
x.c: In function ‘foo’:
x.c:5:2: error: impossible constraint in ‘asm’
asm("adrp %0, %1" : "=r" (addr) : "S" (&x));
^
Boo. Following revisions of the compiler work just fine, though.
We can fallback to the "i" constraint for GCC version prior to 5.0,
which *seems* to do the right thing. Hopefully we will be able to
remove this at some point, but in the meantime this gets us going.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201217111135.1536658-1-maz@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Linux kernel
============
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.