Re: linux-next: Tree for November 29 (aesni-intel)

From: Mathias Krause
Date: Mon Nov 29 2010 - 14:45:52 EST


On 29.11.2010, 20:31 Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 11/29/10 11:21, Mathias Krause wrote:
>> On 29.11.2010, 19:54 Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> On 11/29/10 10:26, Mathias Krause wrote:
>>>> On 29.11.2010, 17:31 Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:03:35 +1100 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Changes since 20101126:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> on i386 builds, I get tons of these (and more) errors:
>>>>>
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:841: Error: bad register name `%r12'
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:842: Error: bad register name `%r13'
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:843: Error: bad register name `%r14'
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:844: Error: bad register name `%rsp'
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:849: Error: bad register name `%rsp'
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:850: Error: bad register name `%rsp'
>>>>> arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S:851: Error: bad register name `%r9'
>>>>>
>>>>> even though the kernel .config file says:
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES=m
>>>>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_586=m
>>>>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_AES_NI_INTEL=m
>>>>>
>>>>> Should arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel_asm.S be testing
>>>>> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>>>>> instead of
>>>>> #ifdef __x86_64__
>>>>> or does that not matter?
>>>>>
>>>>> or is this a toolchain issue?
>>>>
>>>> Well, __x86_64__ should be a build-in define of the compiler while
>>>> CONFIG_X86_64 is defined for 64 bit builds in include/generated/autoconf.h.
>>>> So by using the latter we should be on the safe side but if your compiler
>>>> defines __x86_64__ for 32-bit builds it's simply broken. Also git grep
>>>> showed quite a few more places using __x86_64__ so those would miscompile on
>>>> your toolchain, too.
>>>>
>>>> But it looks like linux-next is just missing
>>>> 559ad0ff1368baea14dbc3207d55b02bd69bda4b from Herbert's git repo at
>>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/cryptodev-2.6.git.
>>>> That should fix the build issue.
>>>
>>> The build problem still happens when that patch is applied.
>>
>> That's weird. So it must be something with your toolchain.
>> Can you please post the output of the following commands?:
>>
>> $ touch /tmp/null.c; cc -m32 -dD -E /tmp/null.c | grep -E 'x86|i.86'
>
> #define __i386 1
> #define __i386__ 1
> #define i386 1
> #define __i586 1
> #define __i586__ 1
>
>> $ touch /tmp/null.c; cc -m64 -dD -E /tmp/null.c | grep -E 'x86|i.86'
>
> #define __x86_64 1
> #define __x86_64__ 1
>
> So that's not the problem... and the patch below didn't help.

That's odd. The output of the commands looks good so the x86-64 specific code
should be left out for 32-bit builds. :/

> Sorry that I even asked about that. What next?

Can you please post the full error message. Meanwhile I'm checking out a
linux-next tree, trying to reproduce your problem.

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