arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S in stable/linux-4.19.y failed to build with LLVM_IAS=1 #1349

jcai19 · 2021-04-13T23:43:13Z

Building failed with the "error: too many positional arguments".

Steps for reproduce:
$ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
$ ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make -j32 LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 V=1 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.o

arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments
clock_gettime_return, shift=1
^
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments
clock_gettime_return, shift=1
^
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments
clock_gettime_return, shift=1

jcai19 · 2021-04-13T23:45:31Z

cc @nathanchance

It seems like IAS cannot parse the comma between macro name and arguments. The following diff fixed the problem.

---
 arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
index 856fee6d3512..7ee685d9adfc 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ x_tmp		.req	x8
 9998:
 	.endm
 
-	.macro clock_gettime_return, shift=0
+	.macro clock_gettime_return shift=0
 	.if \shift == 1
 	lsr	x11, x11, x12
 	.endif
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ realtime:
 	seqcnt_check fail=realtime
 	get_ts_realtime res_sec=x10, res_nsec=x11, \
 		clock_nsec=x15, xtime_sec=x13, xtime_nsec=x14, nsec_to_sec=x9
-	clock_gettime_return, shift=1
+	clock_gettime_return shift=1
 
 	ALIGN
 monotonic:
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ monotonic:
 		clock_nsec=x15, xtime_sec=x13, xtime_nsec=x14, nsec_to_sec=x9
 
 	add_ts sec=x10, nsec=x11, ts_sec=x3, ts_nsec=x4, nsec_to_sec=x9
-	clock_gettime_return, shift=1
+	clock_gettime_return shift=1
 
 	ALIGN
 monotonic_raw:
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ monotonic_raw:
 		clock_nsec=x15, nsec_to_sec=x9
 
 	add_ts sec=x10, nsec=x11, ts_sec=x13, ts_nsec=x14, nsec_to_sec=x9
-	clock_gettime_return, shift=1
+	clock_gettime_return shift=1
 
 	ALIGN
 realtime_coarse:
--

nathanchance · 2021-04-13T23:48:42Z

This is "fixed" by the rewrite of the vDSO into C: https://git.kernel.org/linus/28b1a824a4f44da46983cd2c3249f910bd4b797b

That diff seems fine to carry downstream if you do not want to do something similar to Android (which was a pretty massive backport series): https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/kernel/common/+/1294668

jcai19 · 2021-04-14T00:02:07Z

@m-gupta @groeck

Ah I see! Thanks for the link. The backports do look massive. Edited: I sent a patch for stable 4.19 branch: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CA+SOCLL28Hej9zMmKJpU5vffVGviDo59uG=kWm0zPtCyZodR5g@mail.gmail.com/T/#t

nathanchance · 2021-05-05T21:08:19Z

I provided some feedback to try and move this along upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YJMJAiwMPqlWmr8Y@archlinux-ax161/

jcai19 · 2021-05-05T23:03:32Z

Thanks for the feedback! Will update the patch.

nathanchance · 2021-05-10T16:57:36Z

Patch is accepted and queued for the next 4.19 release in a couple of days: https://lore.kernel.org/r/16206352882063@kroah.com/

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, torvalds#8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a82 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a82 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

nickdesaulniers · 2021-06-08T00:45:19Z

4.19.y: a921d01

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Debayan Kar <kardebayan3@gmail.com>

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, clarencelol#2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, clarencelol#8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Change-Id: I486569c6af5d4bb3f5651dccdca1436be0a16bae

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Change-Id: If006e175105cf7387be43fe1ed53d0563d10be54

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Change-Id: I7992e0a943b4f35a2727036c00ed36cbe9bb526f Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Change-Id: If006e175105cf7387be43fe1ed53d0563d10be54

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Change-Id: I7eea04241c1f8ac7bc3b7915b781acdd1e2b6686

LLVM's integrated assembler appears to assume an argument with default value is passed whenever it sees a comma right after the macro name. It will be fine if the number of following arguments is one less than the number of parameters specified in the macro definition. Otherwise, it fails. For example, the following code works: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -dr ias.o ias.o: file format elf32-littlearm Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.text>: 0: e5910001 ldr r0, [r1, #2] 4: e5910003 ldr r0, [r1, #8] While the the following code would fail: $ cat foo.s .macro foo arg1=2, arg2=4 ldr r0, [r1, #\arg1] ldr r0, [r1, #\arg2] .endm foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 $ llvm-mc -triple=armv7a -filetype=obj foo.s -o ias.o foo.s:6:14: error: too many positional arguments foo, arg1=2, arg2=8 This causes build failures as follows: arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:230:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:253:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 ^ arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/gettimeofday.S:274:24: error: too many positional arguments clock_gettime_return, shift=1 This error is not in mainline because commit 28b1a824a4f4 ("arm64: vdso: Substitute gettimeofday() with C implementation") rewrote this assembler file in C as part of a 25 patch series that is unsuitable for stable. Just remove the comma in the clock_gettime_return invocations in 4.19 so that GNU as and LLVM's integrated assembler work the same. Link: ClangBuiltLinux/linux#1349 Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Change-Id: If006e175105cf7387be43fe1ed53d0563d10be54 Signed-off-by: Wahid Khan <wahidzk0091@gmail.com>