[PATCH v2] crypto: arm64/sha: Add constant operand modifier to ASM_EXPORT

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Apr 24 01:04:19 PDT 2017


On 24 April 2017 at 09:00, Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 10:34:01AM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
>> El Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 04:35:02PM +0100 Ard Biesheuvel ha dit:
>>
>> > On 18 April 2017 at 15:47, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker at windriver.com> wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Matthias Kaehlcke <mka at chromium.org> wrote:
>> > >> The operand is an integer constant, make the constness explicit by
>> > >> adding the modifier. This is needed for clang to generate valid code
>> > >> and also works with gcc.
>> > >
>> > > Actually it doesn't work with all gcc.  I've got an older arm64 toolchain that I
>> > > only use for syntax checking (and hence I don't care if it is the latest and
>> > > greatest) and this commit breaks it:
>> > >
>> > > arch/arm64/crypto/sha1-ce-glue.c:21:2: error: invalid 'asm': invalid
>> > > operand prefix '%c'
>> > >   asm(".globl " #sym "; .set " #sym ", %c0" :: "i"(val));
>>
>> Sorry about that :(
>
> So what's the consensus? Should I revert this patch?
>

Yes please.



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