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Re: [PATCH 7/7] crypto, x86, LLVM: aesni - fix token pasting

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  Re: [PATCH 7/7] crypto, x86, LLVM: aesni - fix token pasting Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> - 2017-04-04 01:20 +0200

#1615611 — Re: [PATCH 7/7] crypto, x86, LLVM: aesni - fix token pasting

El Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:15:20PM -0700 Michael Davidson ha dit:

> aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S uses the C preprocessor for token pasting
> of character sequences that are not valid preprocessor tokens.
> While this is allowed when preprocessing assembler files it exposes
> an incompatibilty between the clang and gcc preprocessors where
> clang does not strip leading white space from macro parameters,
> leading to the CONCAT(%xmm, i) macro expansion on line 96 resulting
> in a token with a space character embedded in it.
> 
> While this could be fixed by deleting the offending space character,
> the assembler is perfectly capable of handling the token pasting
> correctly for itself so it seems preferable to let it do so and to
> get rid or the CONCAT(), DDQ() and XMM() preprocessor macros.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/crypto/aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S b/arch/x86/crypto/aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S
> index a916c4a61165..5f6a5af9c489 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/crypto/aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/aes_ctrby8_avx-x86_64.S
> @@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
>  #include <linux/linkage.h>
>  #include <asm/inst.h>
>  
> -#define CONCAT(a,b)	a##b
>  #define VMOVDQ		vmovdqu
>  
>  #define xdata0		%xmm0
> @@ -92,8 +91,6 @@
>  #define num_bytes	%r8
>  
>  #define tmp		%r10
> -#define	DDQ(i)		CONCAT(ddq_add_,i)
> -#define	XMM(i)		CONCAT(%xmm, i)
>  #define	DDQ_DATA	0
>  #define	XDATA		1
>  #define KEY_128		1
> @@ -131,12 +128,12 @@ ddq_add_8:
>  /* generate a unique variable for ddq_add_x */
>  
>  .macro setddq n
> -	var_ddq_add = DDQ(\n)
> +	var_ddq_add = ddq_add_\n
>  .endm
>  
>  /* generate a unique variable for xmm register */
>  .macro setxdata n
> -	var_xdata = XMM(\n)
> +	var_xdata = %xmm\n
>  .endm
>  
>  /* club the numeric 'id' to the symbol 'name' */

Any feedback on this patch?

Thanks

Matthias

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