linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: Add ASM modifier for xN register operands

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Message-ID: <20170425121328.GH24484@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 13:13:28 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
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        Michael Davidson <md@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Add ASM modifier for xN register operands

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 12:13:45PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> El Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:34:14PM +0100 Will Deacon ha dit:
> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 06:22:51PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > AIUI, Clang now always complains for missing register width modifiers,
> > > not just for placeholders that resolve to a 32-bit (or smaller)
> > > quantity.
> > 
> > Ok, in which case this patch is incomplete as there's a bunch of asm that
> > isn't updated (e.g. spinlock.h).
> 
> Sorry, my grep pattern was a bit naive and didn't take multiline
> inline assembly into account.

Ah, right, so you were trying to fix everything but just missed stuff. Maybe
it's best to grep for 'asm.*(' and filter out the false positives.

> If you are ok with adding modifiers everywhere I'll add the missing
> bits, otherwise I'll rework the patch to only change the instances
> where clang emits the warning.

Fixing the issue everywhere is probably best. You might also need to look
under drivers/.

Will