[PATCH 62/62] ARM: tegra: make debug_ll code build for ARMv6

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Mar 20 06:50:16 EDT 2014


On Wednesday 19 March 2014, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 03/19/2014 01:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2014 13:40:06 Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> Hmmm. This code is guaranteed to only execute on Tegra (well, perhaps
> >> someone can turn on the wrong debug option and run it on non-Tegra, but
> >> then it's guaranteed not to work since the HW it touches doesn't exist).
> >> As such, the code ought to be able to use ARMv7 instructions.
> >>
> >> As a fix for similar issues in assembly code in arch/arm/mach-tegra/*.S,
> >> Makefile there does:
> >>
> >> asflags-y                               += -march=armv7-a
> >>
> >> (I think you added that? Yes, in 408e713545ca "ARM: tegra: build
> >> assembly files with -march=armv7-a")
> >>
> >> Shouldn't we use the same fix in this case too?
> > 
> > That was my first idea, but I couldn't come up with a nice way to do this
> > for arch/arm/kernel/debug.S, which #includes the specific implementation.
> > 
> > I'd rather not put lots of per-platform hacks into arch/arm/kernel/Makefile.
> 
> Oh, I guess the fact it's include makes it a bit more painful.
> 
> You could deal with it in Kconfig reasonably easily by having each of
> DEBUG_*_UART select a config option indicating how to compile code that
> includes DEBUG_LL_INCLUDE, and then have the Makefiles set up asflags
> based on those. Still, that would be a lot of work and this patch is
> simpler.
> 
> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>

Ok, thanks for testing! I'm always cautious aobut my own assembly skills,
so I'm glad this worked.

	Arnd



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