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From:   Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/18] arm64: make mrs_s and msr_s macros work with LTO
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On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:54:33AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:34:21PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > From: Alex Matveev <alxmtvv@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Use UNDEFINE_MRS_S and UNDEFINE_MSR_S to define corresponding macros
> > in-place and workaround gcc and clang limitations on redefining macros
> > across different assembler blocks.
> 
> What limitations? Can you elaborate please? Is this a fix?

Hi Will,

Regarding GCC.

When it joins preprocessed source files into single asm file,
mrs_s/msr_s becomes either not declared or declared multiple times.

./ccuFb68h.s:33120: Error: Macro `mrs_s' was already defined
./ccuFb68h.s:33124: Error: Macro `msr_s' was already defined

I'm not sure that GCC works correctly in this case, and I sent the
email to Linaro toolchain group to clarify it. See below.

Yury

[...]

Links:
My unfinished branch:
https://github.com/norov/linux/tree/lto
Andi Kleen tree:
https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc/tree/lto-411-1
Sami Tolvanen's recent work for clang:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/3/606

Question we have for now:
There's mrs_s/msr_s macro that doesn't work with LTO - linker
complains very loudly that macro is either not declared, or declared
multiple times. (To reproduce - try to build my kernel branch w/o last
patch).

The same (?) problem is observed with clang, and people there
considered it as feature, not a bug.

https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19749

We have the fix for both clang and gcc, but it looks hacky. Maybe it
worth to fix mrs/msr issue on toolchain side?

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