[PATCH] arm64: Drop workaround for broken 'S' constraint with GCC 4.9
Marc Zyngier
maz at kernel.org
Mon Jan 18 08:01:29 EST 2021
Since GCC < 5.1 has been shown to be unsuitable for the arm64 kernel,
let's drop the workaround for the 'S' asm constraint that GCC 4.9
doesn't always grok.
This is effectively a revert of 9fd339a45be5 ("arm64: Work around
broken GCC 4.9 handling of "S" constraint").
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
index 8a33d83ea843..7ccf770c53d9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_asm.h
@@ -199,12 +199,6 @@ extern void __vgic_v3_init_lrs(void);
extern u32 __kvm_get_mdcr_el2(void);
-#if defined(GCC_VERSION) && GCC_VERSION < 50000
-#define SYM_CONSTRAINT "i"
-#else
-#define SYM_CONSTRAINT "S"
-#endif
-
/*
* Obtain the PC-relative address of a kernel symbol
* s: symbol
@@ -221,7 +215,7 @@ extern u32 __kvm_get_mdcr_el2(void);
typeof(s) *addr; \
asm("adrp %0, %1\n" \
"add %0, %0, :lo12:%1\n" \
- : "=r" (addr) : SYM_CONSTRAINT (&s)); \
+ : "=r" (addr) : "S" (&s)); \
addr; \
})
--
2.29.2
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