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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	zengzhaoxiu@163.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Zhaoxiu Zeng <zhaoxiu.zeng@gmail.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling convention
Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 22:22:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160504202213.GF23257@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3405f2e-437c-a077-3a1c-90ff31e74787@zytor.com>

On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:49:17PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sigh.  Doesn't look like -Wa is going to help due to the lack of the
> equivalent of an -include option in gas.

So much for the register "freedom" - I'll resurrect the hardcoded insn
bytes. :-\

Unless my gcc friends have some other ideas...

sarge:~# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

sarge:~# cat popcnt.c
int main(void)
{
        int a, b;

        asm volatile("popcnt %0, %1" : "=r" (a) : "r" (b));

        return 0;
}
sarge:~# gcc -Wall -o popcnt{,.c}
/tmp/ccHmmgjH.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccHmmgjH.s:14: Error: no such instruction: `popcnt %eax,%eax'
sarge:~#

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-04 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-05  2:06 [PATCH V2 01/30] bitops: add parity functions Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-05  4:23 ` [PATCH V2 02/30] Include generic parity.h in some architectures' bitops.h Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-06  8:41   ` [PATCH v2 " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-05 19:04 ` [PATCH V2 01/30] bitops: add parity functions Sam Ravnborg
2016-04-06  5:33   ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-06  8:24     ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-04-06  8:22   ` [PATCH v2 " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  8:46 ` [PATCH v2 03/30] Add alpha-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  8:53 ` [PATCH v2 04/30] Add blackfin-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  8:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/30] Add ia64-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  8:59 ` [PATCH v2 06/30] Add mips-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:23   ` zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:03 ` [PATCH v2 07/30] Add powerpc-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:07 ` [PATCH v2 08/30] Add sparc-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 18:44   ` Sam Ravnborg
2016-04-07  3:56     ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:08 ` [PATCH v2 09/30] Add tile-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 13:27   ` Chris Metcalf
2016-04-07  3:55     ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:14 ` [PATCH v2 10/30] Add x86-specific " zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:13   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-06 10:37     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-04-06 10:53       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-07  3:55         ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-07  9:39           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-11  2:43       ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-15  2:11         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-07  3:55     ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-07  9:41       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-06 19:45   ` Andi Kleen
2016-04-07  3:56     ` Zeng Zhaoxiu
2016-04-07  6:31     ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-04-07  9:43       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 18:46         ` [RFC PATCH] x86/hweight: Get rid of the special calling convention Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 19:31           ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-04 19:33             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-05-04 19:41               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-04 19:49                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-05-04 20:22                   ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2016-05-04 20:51                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-05-04 21:09                     ` Andi Kleen
2016-05-05 13:02                     ` Denys Vlasenko
2016-05-05 14:04                       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-10 16:53                         ` [PATCH -v2] " Borislav Petkov
2016-05-10 17:23                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-10 19:02                             ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-10 19:03                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-05-10 19:10                               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-10 22:30                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-05-11  4:11                                   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-11 11:15                                     ` Brian Gerst
2016-05-11 11:24                                       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-11 12:47                                         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-12  4:54                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2016-05-12 11:57                                           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-12 12:14                                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-12 13:09                                               ` Borislav Petkov
2016-05-18 10:38                                                 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-07 14:10     ` [PATCH v2 10/30] Add x86-specific parity functions One Thousand Gnomes
2016-04-06  9:27 ` [PATCH v2 11/30] sunrpc: use parity8 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:30 ` [PATCH v2 12/30] mips: use parity functions in cerr-sb1.c zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:36 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] bch: use parity32 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:39 ` [PATCH v2 14/30] media: use parity8 in vivid-vbi-gen.c zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:41 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] media: use parity functions in saa7115 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:43 ` [PATCH v2 16/30] input: use parity32 in grip_mp zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:44 ` [PATCH v2 17/30] input: use parity64 in sidewinder zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:45 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] input: use parity16 in ams_delta_serio zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:47 ` [PATCH v2 19/30] scsi: use parity32 in isci's phy zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:52 ` [PATCH v2 20/30] mtd: use parity16 in ssfdc zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:53 ` [PATCH v2 21/30] mtd: use parity functions in inftlcore zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06  9:58 ` [PATCH v2 22/30] crypto: use parity functions in qat_hal zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:05 ` [PATCH v2 23/30] mtd: use parity16 in sm_ftl zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:11 ` [PATCH v2 24/30] ethernet: use parity8 in sun/niu.c zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:14 ` [PATCH v2 25/30] input: use parity8 in pcips2 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:15 ` [PATCH v2 26/30] input: use parity8 in sa1111ps2 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:16 ` [PATCH v2 27/30] iio: use parity32 in adxrs450 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-10 14:37   ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-04-10 14:41     ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2016-04-10 15:13       ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-04-10 15:14         ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-04-06 10:18 ` [PATCH v2 28/30] serial: use parity32 in max3100 zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:25   ` Greg KH
2016-04-06 10:20 ` [PATCH v2 29/30] input: use parity8 in elantech zengzhaoxiu
2016-04-06 10:21 ` [PATCH v2 30/30] ethernet: use parity8 in broadcom/tg3.c zengzhaoxiu

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