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arm64: Delete the space separator in __emit_inst
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In assembly, many instances of __emit_inst(x) expand to a directive. In
a few places __emit_inst(x) is used as an assembler macro argument. For
example, in arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/entry.S

  ALTERNATIVE(nop, SET_PSTATE_PAN(1), ARM64_HAS_PAN, CONFIG_ARM64_PAN)

expands to the following by the C preprocessor:

  alternative_insn nop, .inst (0xd500401f | ((0) << 16 | (4) << 5) | ((!!1) << 8)), 4, 1

Both comma and space are separators, with an exception that content
inside a pair of parentheses/quotes is not split, so the clang
integrated assembler splits the arguments to:

   nop, .inst, (0xd500401f | ((0) << 16 | (4) << 5) | ((!!1) << 8)), 4, 1

GNU as preprocesses the input with do_scrub_chars(). Its arm64 backend
(along with many other non-x86 backends) sees:

  alternative_insn nop,.inst(0xd500401f|((0)<<16|(4)<<5)|((!!1)<<8)),4,1
  # .inst(...) is parsed as one argument

while its x86 backend sees:

  alternative_insn nop,.inst (0xd500401f|((0)<<16|(4)<<5)|((!!1)<<8)),4,1
  # The extra space before '(' makes the whole .inst (...) parsed as two arguments

The non-x86 backend's behavior is considered unintentional
(https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25750).
So drop the space separator inside `.inst (...)` to make the clang
integrated assembler work.

Suggested-by: Ilie Halip <ilie.halip@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#939
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Vincent <git@tensevntysevn.cf>
Signed-off-by: John Vincent <git@tenseventyseven.cf>
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MaskRay authored and ghazzor committed Jun 10, 2024
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h
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#ifndef CONFIG_BROKEN_GAS_INST

#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
#define __emit_inst(x) .inst (x)
// The space separator is omitted so that __emit_inst(x) can be parsed as
// either an assembler directive or an assembler macro argument.
#define __emit_inst(x) .inst(x)
#else
#define __emit_inst(x) ".inst " __stringify((x)) "\n\t"
#endif
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