Re: [PATCH] arm64/alternatives: move length validation inside the subsection

Catalin Marinas
2020-07-30T12:22:07Z

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 02:51:52PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> Commit f7b93d42945c ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement
> sequences") breaks LLVM's integrated assembler, because due to its
> one-pass design, it cannot compute instruction sequence lengths before the
> layout for the subsection has been finalized. This change fixes the build
> by moving the .org directives inside the subsection, so they are processed
> after the subsection layout is known.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1078
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14+

Commit f7b93d42945c went in 5.8-rc4. Why is this cc stable from 4.14? If
Will picks it up for 5.8, it doesn't even need a cc stable.

Please add a Fixes: tag as well.

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Catalin