Re: [PATCH -fixes] dma-mapping: add default implementation to arch_dma_{set|clear}_uncached

[Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>]

On 09/07/2024 12:39 pm, Yangyu Chen wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 9, 2024, at 19:19, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 05:25:29PM +0800, Yangyu Chen wrote:
>>> Currently, we have some code in kernel/dma/direct.c which references
>>> arch_dma_set_uncached and arch_dma_clear_uncached. However, many
>>> architectures do not provide these symbols, and the code currently
>>> relies on compiler optimization to cut the unnecessary code. When the
>>> compiler fails to optimize it, the code will reference the symbol and
>>> cause a link error. I found this bug when developing some new extensions
>>> for RISC-V on LLVM. The error message is shown below:
>>
>> Same comment as for the last one.  I think your compiler misbehaves,
>> and the typical reason for that would be if you disable all
>> optimizations.
>>
> 
> The reason is that some optimizations failed to apply after adding
> some passes. I will fix the compiler later. Whatever, we should not
> rely on this optimization to get the code being successfully compiled.

We rely on unreachable code being optimised out *all over* the place - 
it's kind of the main point of constructs like IS_ENABLED(), and why the 
kernel as a whole does not and will not support being compiled with -O0. 
Frankly I'm quite surprised that this one would be the only case you hit 
if your compiler is not doing that properly.

Thanks,
Robin.