[PATCH] arm64: Drop workaround for broken 'S' constraint with GCC 4.9

Marc Zyngier maz at kernel.org
Mon Jan 18 11:28:11 EST 2021


On 2021-01-18 16:26, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 01:01:29PM +0000, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>> 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>
> 
> It looks like I merged this fix in -rc1. Do you want me to merge the
> revert as well or you'll handle it?

It'd make sense if it went via the arm64 tree as well.

Thanks,

         M.
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