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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Suzuki K Poulose' <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>,
	Tao Zhang <quic_taozha@quicinc.com>,
	"Mike Leach" <mike.leach@linaro.org>,
	Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>,
	"Alexander Shishkin" <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>, Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>,
	"coresight@lists.linaro.org" <coresight@lists.linaro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"llvm@lists.linux.dev" <llvm@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5] coresight: etm4x: avoid build failure with unrolled loops
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 09:40:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd4a9bad394b478f9ee0d9c0981948f8@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b330119-fbf2-1c34-7ad3-0ae789658d22@arm.com>

...
> > Regardless of which compiler or compiler options determine whether a
> > loop can or can't be unrolled, which determines whether
> > __builtin_constant_p evaluates to true when passed an expression using a
> > loop induction variable, it is NEVER safe to allow the preprocessor to
> > construct inline asm like:
> >    asm volatile (".inst (0x160 + (i * 4))" : "=r"(__val));
> >                                   ^ expected constant expression

Can't you use (IIRC) an "=i" constraint with the C expression
so that the compiler evaluates the expression and passes the
correct constant value to the assembler?

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-28  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-14 22:02 [PATCH v4] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-06-23  9:46 ` Suzuki K Poulose
2022-06-23 17:41   ` [PATCH v5] " Nick Desaulniers
2022-06-27 21:44     ` Suzuki K Poulose
2022-06-28  9:40       ` David Laight [this message]
2022-07-08 23:04         ` Nick Desaulniers

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