linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto, x86: aesni

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 22:12:50 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto, x86: aesni - fix token pasting for clang

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:36:00PM -0700, Michael Davidson wrote:
> aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S uses the C preprocessor for token pasting
> of character sequences that are not valid preprocessor tokens.
> While this is allowed when preprocessing assembler files it exposes
> an incompatibilty between the clang and gcc preprocessors where
> clang does not strip leading white space from macro parameters,
> leading to the CONCAT(%xmm, i) macro expansion on line 96 resulting
> in a token with a space character embedded in it.
> 
> While this could be resolved by deleting the offending space character,
> the assembler is perfectly capable of doing the token pasting correctly
> for itself so we can just get rid of the preprocessor macros.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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