[PATCH v6] coresight: etm4x: avoid build failure with unrolled loops

Suzuki K Poulose suzuki.poulose at arm.com
Mon Jul 11 01:34:41 PDT 2022


On 10/07/2022 20:13, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 1:15 AM Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com> wrote:
> 
>>          ({                                                                      \
>>                  u64 __val;                                                      \
>>                                                                                  \
>> -               if (__builtin_constant_p((offset)))                             \
>> +               if (__is_constexpr((offset)))                                   \
>>                          __val = read_etm4x_sysreg_const_offset((offset));       \
>>                  else                                                            \
>>                          __val = etm4x_sysreg_read((offset), true, (_64bit));    \
>>
> 
> This is clearly better than the current version using
> __builtin_constant_p(), but
> I don't think it's safe in all cases, since there are expressions that
> are constant
> expressions to the compiler but are not valid input to the assembler.
> 
> I would prefer to see this fixed differently, but doing this one first is also
> fine with me:
> 
> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
>          Arnd


Thanks, I have queued this.

Suzuki



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