Re: [PATCH] kselftest/arm64: Fix build with stricter assemblers

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 03:27:58PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2024 at 03:20:46PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > While some assemblers (including the LLVM assembler I mostly use) will
> > happily accept SMSTART as an instruction by default others, specifically
> > gas, require that any architecture extensions be explicitly enabled.
> > The assembler SME test programs use manually encoded helpers for the new
> > instructions but no SMSTART helper is defined, only SM and ZA specific
> > variants.  Unfortunately the irritators that were just added use plain
> > SMSTART so on stricter assemblers these fail to build:
> > 
> > za-test.S:160: Error: selected processor does not support `smstart'
> > 
> > Switch to using SMSTART ZA via the manually encoded smstart_za macro we
> > already have defined.
> > 
> > Fixes: d65f27d240bb ("kselftest/arm64: Implement irritators for ZA and ZT")
> > Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >  tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S | 2 +-
> >  tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/zt-test.S | 2 +-
> >  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S
> > index 95fdc1c1f228221bc812087a528e4b7c99767bba..9c33e13e9dc4a6f084649fe7d0fb838d9171e3aa 100644
> > --- a/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/arm64/fp/za-test.S
> > @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ function irritator_handler
> >  
> >  	// This will reset ZA to all bits 0
> >  	smstop
> > -	smstart
> > +	smstart_za
> 
> And is smstop ok for assemblers? I think I got the error first on
> smstop with my toolchain.

Ah, we already have a macro for that. Let me check the error I got,
maybe I got confused (with the multitude of other warnings ;)).

-- 
Catalin