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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix compilation breakage in entry-armv.S
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 12:08:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111108120844.GD12913@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1111081258240.10851@axis700.grange>

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:36:36PM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > Compilation of Linus' tree of today without THUMB support for V7 machines 
> > > breaks:
> > > 
> > > linux-2.6/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S: Assembler messages:
> > > linux-2.6/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:501: Error: backward ref to unknown label "2:"
> > > linux-2.6/arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S:502: Error: backward ref to unknown label "3:"
> > > make[2]: *** [arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.o] Error 1
> > > 
> > > Fix this by adding a check for CONFIG_ARM_THUMB.
> > 
> > This still looks wrong.  The code for '2' and '3' is included when:
> > 
> > #if CONFIG_ARM_THUMB && __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__ >= 6 && CONFIG_CPU_V7
> > 
> > is true - so the condition on including it in the exception tables should
> > be the same as that.
> 
> Yes, I saw those, but, aren't they superfluous? Let's see:
> 
> arch/arm/mm/Kconfig:
> 
> config CPU_V7
> 	...
> 	select CPU_32v7
> 
> arch/arm/Makefile:
> 
> arch-$(CONFIG_CPU_32v7)		:=-D__LINUX_ARM_ARCH__=7 $(call cc-option,-march=armv7-a,-march=armv5t -Wa$(comma)-march=armv7-a)
> 
> So, looks like CPU_V7 implies __LINUX_ARM_ARCH__=7? Ok, I picked up the 
> wrong pair, so, should this be enough:
> 
> #if CONFIG_ARM_THUMB && CONFIG_CPU_V7
> 
> and the original condition, where the labels are defined, that you 
> quoted, can be reduced too?

It looks like you're right.  I'm going to bat this one over to
Dave Martin to confirm.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-08 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-08 11:36 [PATCH] fix compilation breakage in entry-armv.S Guennadi Liakhovetski
2011-11-08 11:40 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-11-08 12:03   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2011-11-08 12:08     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2011-11-11 15:15     ` Dave Martin
2011-11-16 15:05       ` [PATCH v2] " Guennadi Liakhovetski
2011-11-18 15:23         ` Dave Martin
2011-11-19 19:03           ` Russell King - ARM Linux

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