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From: "Leif Lindholm" <leif@nuviainc.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
Cc: devel@edk2.groups.io, glin@suse.com, lersek@redhat.com,
	liming.gao@intel.com
Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2] ArmPkg/CompilerIntrinsicsLib: provide atomics intrinsics
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 14:16:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200521131644.GT1923@vanye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de3d4703-f374-c0d6-e871-76b9f45d9753@arm.com>

On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 14:58:56 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> Apparently, GCC 10 is getting fixed so that we can set a #pragma in
> MdePkg/Include/AArch64/ProcessorBind.h, and be done with it.
> 
> That does mean you would need GCC 10.2 at least, or you get the error,
> unless we merge this patch as well. That would mean the intrinsics are never
> used in practice, but using a compiler that does use them will not break the
> build.
> 
> I am leaning towards omitting this patch, but I could be convinced to adopt
> both mitigations. But the #pragma is strongly preferred.

What is the codesize impact on a full RELEASE image?
If non-negligable, how about #ifdefing the whole content out unless
some specific preprocessor flag is passed? Then at least there's a
quick workaround for anyone who needs it.

/
    Leif

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-21 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-20 11:44 [PATCH v2] ArmPkg/CompilerIntrinsicsLib: provide atomics intrinsics Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-20 12:37 ` [edk2-devel] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-21 16:40   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-21 16:45     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-21 16:59       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-21 17:02         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-21 17:07           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-05-20 15:59 ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-05-21 11:23 ` Leif Lindholm
2020-05-21 12:58   ` [edk2-devel] " Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-21 13:16     ` Leif Lindholm [this message]
2020-05-21 13:31       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-21 14:16         ` Leif Lindholm
2020-05-21 20:22           ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-05-22  8:16             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-22 10:54             ` Leif Lindholm
2020-05-22 13:27               ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-22 19:04                 ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-06-02  0:50                 ` Liming Gao
2020-06-02  7:09                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-05-28  1:36 ` Gary Lin
2020-05-28  9:49   ` Leif Lindholm
2020-05-28 15:48     ` Liming Gao
2020-05-28 20:09       ` Laszlo Ersek
2020-05-29  3:04         ` Liming Gao

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