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Subject: Re: [PATCH] coresight: etm4x: avoid build failure with unrolled loops
To:     Tao Zhang <quic_taozha@quicinc.com>,
        Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
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        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Tingwei Zhang <quic_tingweiz@quicinc.com>,
        Mao Jinlong <quic_jinlmao@quicinc.com>,
        Yuanfang Zhang <quic_yuanfang@quicinc.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
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From:   Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
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Date:   Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:29:50 +0100
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Hi Tao

On 26/09/2021 11:35, Tao Zhang wrote:
> clang-12 fails to build the etm4x driver with -fsanitize=array-bounds,
> where it decides to unroll certain loops in a way that result in a
> C variable getting put into an inline assembly.
> 
> Search this build failure and find this is a known issue and there
> has been a mail thread discussing it.
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-arm-kernel/patch/20210429145752.3218324-1-arnd@kernel.org/
> According to the modification suggestions of this mail thread,
> coresight infrastucture has already provided another API that
> can replace the function that caused the error.
> 
> Used here "csdev_access_read32" to replace the original API
> "etm4x_relaxed_read32".
> 
> This patch applies to coresight/next
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tao Zhang <quic_taozha@quicinc.com>


Thanks for picking up the patch. Please could you convert all the other
variable indexed register access too ? That would save us spinning up
patches for fixing those individual cases whenever the compiler decides
to change its behavior.

Suzuki