From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Grall Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 for 4.5] arm32: fix build after 063188f4b3 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:52:10 +0100 Message-ID: <5444E95A.2040107@linaro.org> References: <1413462858-17951-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <1413802180.11781.6.camel@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1XgAZZ-0007JQ-H0 for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:52:21 +0000 Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id n3so6715398wiv.17 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 03:52:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1413802180.11781.6.camel@citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, tim@xen.org, Jan Beulich , stefano.stabellini@citrix.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi Ian, On 10/20/2014 11:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 13:34 +0100, Julien Grall wrote: >> "xen: arm: Add support for the Exynos secure firmware" introduced code >> assuming that exynos_smc() would get called with arguments in certain >> registers. While the "noinline" attribute guarantees the function to >> not get inlined, it does not guarantee that all arguments arrive in the >> assumed registers: gcc's interprocedural analysis can result in clone >> functions to be created where some of the incoming arguments (commonly >> when they have constant values) get replaced by putting in place the >> respective values inside the clone. >> >> Xen contains in multiple place of this SMC function: consolidate the function >> in a single place and write it in assembly. >> >> Reported-by: Jan Beulich >> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall > > Acked-by: Ian Campbell > > I think a better $subject would be "xen: arm: introduce assembly helper > to call smc" and to begin the body with: > Commit 063188f4b3 "xen: arm: Add support for..." > > If that's OK with you I'll make that change as I commit. I fine with it. Regards, -- Julien Grall