Re: [patch] 2.4.6-pre3 unresolved symbol do_softirq

[Russell King]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:21:41AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> I can't believe there is no reliable way to get rid of that
> pesky "$" gcc is adding to the symbol.  Oh well...

GCC on ARM does a similar thing - all constants in the assembler are
prefixed with '#' or '@'.  Using the 'i' constraint adds this.  This
behaviour is actually useful when you want to pass a constant or a
register - it allows GCC to make the decision for you, and do the
right thing in the assembler fragment.  Eg, the following code used
to be in the kernel until 2.3:

extern __inline__ void __outb (unsigned int value, unsigned int port)
{
        unsigned long temp;
        __asm__ __volatile__(
        "tst    %2, #0x80000000\n\t"
        "mov    %0, %4\n\t"
        "addeq  %0, %0, %3\n\t"
        "strb   %1, [%0, %2, lsl #2]    @ outb"
        : "=&r" (temp)
        : "r" (value), "r" (port), "Ir" (PCIO_BASE - IO_BASE), "Ir" (IO_BASE)
        : "cc");
}

%3 and %4 might be a constant:
	mov	r5, #0x03000000

or a real register if the constant can't be loaded in one instruction:
	mov	r5, r1

'I' in this case means "a constant suitable for use with the arithmetic
instructions".

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