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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel•org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google•com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb•auug.org.au>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel•org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel•org>,
	llvm@lists•linux.dev, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes•dk>,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches•com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] powerpc: remove GCC version check for UPD_CONSTR
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:43:57 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgsjl7de.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b940bd2c-21d2-dfe9-e171-e265085a2b11@kernel.org>

Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel•org> writes:
> On 9/10/2021 4:40 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>> Now that GCC 5.1 is the minimum supported version, we can drop this
>> workaround for older versions of GCC. This adversely affected clang,
>> too.
>> 
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
>> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel•crashing.org>
>> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup•eu>
>> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
>> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google•com>
>> ---
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-const.h | 10 ----------
>>   1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-const.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-const.h
>> index 0ce2368bd20f..dbfa5e1e3198 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-const.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/asm-const.h
>> @@ -12,16 +12,6 @@
>>   #  define ASM_CONST(x)		__ASM_CONST(x)
>>   #endif
>>   
>> -/*
>> - * Inline assembly memory constraint
>> - *
>> - * GCC 4.9 doesn't properly handle pre update memory constraint "m<>"
>> - *
>> - */
>> -#if defined(GCC_VERSION) && GCC_VERSION < 50000
>> -#define UPD_CONSTR ""
>> -#else
>>   #define UPD_CONSTR "<>"
>> -#endif
>
> The only reason this exists is because of commit 592bbe9c505d 
> ("powerpc/uaccess: Don't use "m<>" constraint with GCC 4.9"). It is 
> probably just worth sinking "<>" into all of the callsites and removing
> UPD_CONSTR.

Yeah that would be great if you're doing a v2. Or we can do it as a
follow-up.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-11 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210910234047.1019925-1-ndesaulniers@google.com>
2021-09-10 23:40 ` [PATCH 06/10] powerpc: remove GCC version check for UPD_CONSTR Nick Desaulniers
2021-09-10 23:48   ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-09-11 10:43     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2021-09-11 15:34   ` Christophe Leroy

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