Re: [PATCH] ARM: kexec: drop invalid assembly argument

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Feb 21 2020 - 16:09:49 EST


On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 3:54 PM Russell King - ARM Linux admin
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 11:59:26PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote:
> > The tst menomic has only a single #<const> argument in Thumb mode. There
> > is an ARM variant which allows to write #<const> as #<byte>, #<rot>
> > which probably is where the current syntax comes from.
> >
> > It seems that binutils does not care about the additional parameter.
> > Clang however complains in Thumb2 mode:
> > arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S:28:12: error: too many operands for
> > instruction
> > tst r3,#1,0
> > ^
> >
> > Drop the unnecessary parameter. This fixes building this file in Thumb2
> > mode with the Clang integrated assembler.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/770
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Please drop it in the patch system, thanks.

Hi Stefan, did you add this to the patch tracking system? Looks like a
bunch got accepted, but I didn't see it in:
https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/section.php?section=20&page=132

>
> > ---
> > arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S | 8 ++++----
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S b/arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> > index 7eaa2ae7aff5..72a08786e16e 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> > +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/relocate_kernel.S
> > @@ -25,26 +25,26 @@ ENTRY(relocate_new_kernel)
> > ldr r3, [r0],#4
> >
> > /* Is it a destination page. Put destination address to r4 */
> > - tst r3,#1,0
> > + tst r3,#1
> > beq 1f
> > bic r4,r3,#1
> > b 0b
> > 1:
> > /* Is it an indirection page */
> > - tst r3,#2,0
> > + tst r3,#2
> > beq 1f
> > bic r0,r3,#2
> > b 0b
> > 1:
> >
> > /* are we done ? */
> > - tst r3,#4,0
> > + tst r3,#4
> > beq 1f
> > b 2f
> >
> > 1:
> > /* is it source ? */
> > - tst r3,#8,0
> > + tst r3,#8
> > beq 0b
> > bic r3,r3,#8
> > mov r6,#1024
> > --
> > 2.25.0
> >
> >
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers