Re: Clang build of arm64 kernel fails

[Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>]

Hi Andrey,

On 28/02/18 19:32, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Hi Marc!
> 
> I've tried to pull in new upstream commits and the kernel build
> started failing for me with the following errors (see below).
> 
> It seems that the reason is your commit "arm64: Add
> ARM_SMCCC_ARCH_WORKAROUND_1 BP hardening support". It seems that Clang
> doesn't like 32 bits registers being used in 64 bits build.

These are not AArch32 registers. They are AArch64 registers that the
compiler specialises to an x (64bit wide) or w (32bit wide) register
depending on the type that is used to define the corresponding variable.
The fact that they are named just as AArch32 is an added compatibility
bonus.

For example:

void foo(void)
{
	register unsigned long reg0 asm("r0") = 0;
	register unsigned int  reg1 asm("r1") = 1;

	asm volatile("hvc #0" : : "r" (reg0), "r" (reg1));
}

results in:

Disassembly of section .text:

0000000000000000 <foo>:
   0:	d2800000 	mov	x0, #0x0                   	// #0
   4:	52800021 	mov	w1, #0x1                   	// #1
   8:	d4000002 	hvc	#0x0
   c:	d65f03c0 	ret

> Would you mind sending a fix?

I can look into it. Is there an equivalent Clang construct that wouldn't
result in a sea of #ifdefs?

Thanks,

	M.
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