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    ARM: 9176/1: avoid literal references in inline assembly · 5fe41793
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    Nathan reports that the new get_current() and per-CPU offset accessors
    may cause problems at build time due to the use of a literal to hold the
    address of the respective variables. This is due to the fact that LLD
    before v14 does not support the PC-relative group relocations that are
    normally used for this, and the fallback relies on literals but does not
    emit the literal pools explictly using the .ltorg directive.
    
    ./arch/arm/include/asm/current.h:53:6: error: out of range pc-relative fixup value
            asm(LOAD_SYM_ARMV6(%0, __current) : "=r"(cur));
                ^
    ./arch/arm/include/asm/insn.h:25:2: note: expanded from macro 'LOAD_SYM_ARMV6'
            "       ldr     " #reg ", =" #sym "                     nt"
            ^
    <inline asm>:1:3: note: instantiated into assembly here
                    ldr     r0, =__current
                    ^
    
    Since emitting a literal pool in this particular case is not possible,
    let's avoid the LOAD_SYM_ARMV6() entirely, and use the ordinary C
    assigment instead.
    
    As it turns out, there are other such cases, and here, using .ltorg to
    emit the literal pool within range of the LDR instruction would be
    possible due to the presence of an unconditional branch right after it.
    Unfortunately, putting .ltorg directives in subsections appears to
    confuse the Clang inline assembler, resulting in similar errors even
    though the .ltorg is most definitely within range.
    
    So let's fix this by emitting the literal explicitly, and not rely on
    the assembler to figure this out. This means we have move the fallback
    out of the LOAD_SYM_ARMV6() macro and into the callers.
    
    Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1551
    
    Fixes: 9c46929e ("ARM: implement THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK for uniprocessor systems")
    Reported-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArd Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
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