From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E16C4360C for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2019 16:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137CB206C2 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2019 16:18:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728182AbfJHQS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Oct 2019 12:18:57 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.110.172]:40578 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725795AbfJHQS4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Oct 2019 12:18:56 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D9B1570; Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:18:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.197.57] (e110467-lin.cambridge.arm.com [10.1.197.57]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E2823F6C4; Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: lse: fix LSE atomics with LLVM's integrated assembler To: Sami Tolvanen , Nick Desaulniers Cc: Kees Cook , Catalin Marinas , LKML , clang-built-linux , Andrew Murray , Will Deacon , Linux ARM References: <20191007201452.208067-1-samitolvanen@google.com> From: Robin Murphy Message-ID: Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:18:53 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/10/2019 16:22, Sami Tolvanen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 2:46 PM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built > Linux wrote: >> I'm worried that one of these might lower to LSE atomics without >> ALTERNATIVE guards by blanketing all C code with `-march=armv8-a+lse`. > > True, that's a valid concern. I think adding the directive to each > assembly block is the way forward then, assuming the maintainers are > fine with that. It's definitely a valid concern in principle, but in practice note that lse.h ends up included in ~99% of C files, so the extension is enabled more or less everywhere already. (based on a quick hack involving '#pragma message' and grepping the build logs) Robin.