Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Optimize jump label implementation on ARM64

From: Jiang Liu
Date: Mon Oct 14 2013 - 11:57:41 EST


On 10/14/2013 11:40 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:50:20PM +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> To enable this feature, your toolchain must support "asm goto" extension
>> and "%c" constraint extesion. Current GCC for AARCH64 doesn't support
>> "%c", so you need a GCC patch similiar to this:
>
> Oh god, not that again. I've no idea why ARM stuff has such a problem with
> supporting this very useful "%c" GCC constraint. Aarch32 didn't for ages
> consequently we now have horrid hacks around it in the kernel source
> because our compilers suck. Seems Aarch64 is doomed to repeat the same
> stupid mistakes. :(
>
We need to do the same trick for ARM64 too:)
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