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Message-ID: <20110310085900.GA25318@elte.hu>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:59:00 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?
* Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz> wrote:
> On 3.3.2011 09:30, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> >> kbuild people: is there a way to test for a specific assembler version
> >> in Kbuild (and error out the build for it?)
> >
> > Could we add a testcase for one of the more egregious breakages and bail out then?
> > That way we don't have to get the version information right - broken prereleases
> > would be covered as well.
> >
> > For example this sequence:
> >
> > .irp idx,0,1,2
> > .if 0 > \idx
> > .endif
> > .endr
> >
> > Will break on 2.16, right? It builds fine on 2.20.
>
> This seems to work for me with the binutils version from sles10 (even
> with a vanilla build of binutils):
> $ as -v <<EOF; echo $?
> > .irp idx,0,1,2
> > .if 0 > \idx
> > .endif
> > .endr
> > EOF
> GNU assembler version 2.16.91.0.5 (i586-suse-linux) using BFD version
> 2.16.91.0.5 20051219
> 0
> $
>
> So either the bug is fixed in that version already or you picked a wrong
> example (or I did not understand what should fail here). But don't get
> me wrong, I'm all for checking for actual bugs instead of innocent
> version strings.
I cited an incorrect testcase most likely. Note that Jan was able to work around the
limitations in 2.16 after all - see the workaround commit that i have queued up in
x86/mm, attached below.
Thanks,
Ingo
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>From d04c579f971bf7d995db1ef7a7161c0143068859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:55:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] x86: Work around old gas bug
Add extra parentheses around a couple of definitions introduced
by "x86: Cleanup vector usage" and used in assembly macro
arguments, and remove spaces. Without that old (2.16.1) gas
would see more macro arguments than were actually specified.
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D6F81B10200007800034B0B@....id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
index 4980f48..6e976ee 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq_vectors.h
@@ -126,14 +126,14 @@
/* up to 32 vectors used for spreading out TLB flushes: */
#if NR_CPUS <= 32
-# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS NR_CPUS
+# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS (NR_CPUS)
#else
-# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS 32
+# define NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS (32)
#endif
-#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END 0xee
+#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END (0xee)
#define INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START \
- (INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END - NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS + 1)
+ (INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_END-NUM_INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTORS+1)
#define NR_VECTORS 256
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