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Fangrui Song
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The generic constraint "i" seems to be copied from x86 or arm (and with a redundant generic operand modifier "c"). It works with -fno-PIE but not with -fPIE/-fPIC in GCC's aarch64 port. The machine constraint "S", which denotes a symbol or label reference with a constant offset, supports PIC and has been available in GCC since 2012 and in Clang since 7.0. However, Clang before 19 does not support "S" on a symbol with a constant offset [1] (e.g. `static_key_false(&nf_hooks_needed[pf][hook])` in include/linux/netfilter.h), so we use "i" as a fallback. Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80255 [1] Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206074552.541154-1-maskray@google.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.