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Message-ID: <20080521203743.GA12982@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:37:43 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@...stal.dyndns.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix Immediate Values x86_64 support old gcc
Hi Mathieu
> Does this fix make more sense ?
>
> GCC < 4, on x86_64, does not accept symbol+offset operands for "i" constraints
> asm statements. Fallback on generic immediate values if this compiler is
> detected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
> ---
> arch/x86/Makefile | 3 +++
> arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 4 +++-
> include/asm-x86/immediate.h | 5 +++++
> include/linux/immediate.h | 4 +++-
> kernel/Makefile | 4 +++-
> 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-sched-devel/arch/x86/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-sched-devel.orig/arch/x86/Makefile 2008-05-21 09:04:52.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-sched-devel/arch/x86/Makefile 2008-05-21 09:22:05.000000000 -0400
> @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@
> "$(CC)" -fstack-protector-all )
>
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-y)
> +
> + export GCC_BROKEN_IMMEDIATE
> + GCC_BROKEN_IMMEDIATE := $(shell if [ $(call cc-version) -lt 0400 ] ; then echo "y"; fi)
So here we introduce a global environment variable that tells
us that gcc has "BROKEN_IMMEDIATE".
I have absolutely no clue what "BROKEN_IMMEDIATE" is so I guess others
are in the same boat. Comment please!
Consider something like this (note: no negative logic involved):
export USE_IMMEDIATE := $(call cc-ifversion, -ge, 0400, $(CONFIG_IMMEDIATE))
Then the MAkefile fragment can be simplified as:
> -obj-$(CONFIG_IMMEDIATE) += immediate.o
> +obj-$(USE_IMMEDIATE) += immediate.o
(Or find a better name than "USE_IMMEDIATE".
> endif
>
> # Stackpointer is addressed different for 32 bit and 64 bit x86
> Index: linux-2.6-sched-devel/include/asm-x86/immediate.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-sched-devel.orig/include/asm-x86/immediate.h 2008-05-21 09:10:59.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-sched-devel/include/asm-x86/immediate.h 2008-05-21 09:15:43.000000000 -0400
> @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
>
> #include <asm/asm.h>
>
> +#if (defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && __GNUC__ < 4) /* Detect broken x86_64 gcc */
> +#undef CONFIG_IMMEDIATE
> +#else
And now in the source we use a direct check of the GNUC version. So this is a duplicate
of GCC_BROKEN_IMMEDIATE and not sensible comments.
"I ask myself in what way is gcc broken?"
And you DO NOT fiddle with the CONFIG_* variables - this is just plain wrong.
> --- linux-2.6-sched-devel.orig/include/linux/immediate.h 2008-05-21 09:12:22.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6-sched-devel/include/linux/immediate.h 2008-05-21 09:12:59.000000000 -0400
> @@ -11,8 +11,10 @@
> */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_IMMEDIATE
> +#include <asm/immediate.h> /* May undef CONFIG_IMMEDIATE */
> +#endif
So you need to find a better way for this.
>
> -#include <asm/immediate.h>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMMEDIATE
>
> /**
> * imv_set - set immediate variable (with locking)
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