Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 for 4.5] arm32: fix build after 063188f4b3

[Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ian,

On 10/20/2014 11:49 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 13:34 +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
>> "xen: arm: Add support for the Exynos secure firmware" introduced code
>> assuming that exynos_smc() would get called with arguments in certain
>> registers. While the "noinline" attribute guarantees the function to
>> not get inlined, it does not guarantee that all arguments arrive in the
>> assumed registers: gcc's interprocedural analysis can result in clone
>> functions to be created where some of the incoming arguments (commonly
>> when they have constant values) get replaced by putting in place the
>> respective values inside the clone.
>>
>> Xen contains in multiple place of this SMC function: consolidate the function
>> in a single place and write it in assembly.
>>
>> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I think a better $subject would be "xen: arm: introduce assembly helper
> to call smc" and to begin the body with:
>         Commit 063188f4b3 "xen: arm: Add support for..."
> 
> If that's OK with you I'll make that change as I commit.

I fine with it.

Regards,


-- 
Julien Grall

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