linux-kernel - [PATCH] [8/98] Fix gcc 4.5.1 miscompiling drivers/char/i8k.c (again)

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:35:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	jim876@...all.nl, jakub@...hat.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	schwab@...ux-m68k.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	ak@...ux.intel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, tim.bird@...sony.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [8/98] Fix gcc 4.5.1 miscompiling drivers/char/i8k.c (again)

2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------
From: Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>

[ upstream commit 22d3243de86bc92d874abb7c5b185d5c47aba323 ]

The fix in commit 6b4e81db2552 ("i8k: Tell gcc that *regs gets
clobbered") to work around the gcc miscompiling i8k.c to add "+m
(*regs)" caused register pressure problems and a build failure.

Changing the 'asm' statement to 'asm volatile' instead should prevent
that and works around the gcc bug as well, so we can remove the "+m".

[ Background on the gcc bug: a memory clobber fails to mark the function
  the asm resides in as non-pure (aka "__attribute__((const))"), so if
  the function does nothing else that triggers the non-pure logic, gcc
  will think that that function has no side effects at all. As a result,
  callers will be mis-compiled.

  Adding the "+m" made gcc see that it's not a pure function, and so
  does "asm volatile". The problem was never really the need to mark
  "*regs" as changed, since the memory clobber did that part - the
  problem was just a bug in the gcc "pure" function analysis  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Bos <jim876@...all.nl>
Acked-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/char/i8k.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/drivers/char/i8k.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/char/i8k.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs
 	int eax = regs->eax;

 #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
-	asm("pushq %%rax\n\t"
+	asm volatile("pushq %%rax\n\t"
 		"movl 0(%%rax),%%edx\n\t"
 		"pushq %%rdx\n\t"
 		"movl 4(%%rax),%%ebx\n\t"
@@ -141,11 +141,11 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs
 		"lahf\n\t"
 		"shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
 		"andl $1,%%eax\n"
-		:"=a"(rc), "+m" (*regs)
+		:"=a"(rc)
 		:    "a"(regs)
 		:    "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
 #else
-	asm("pushl %%eax\n\t"
+	asm volatile("pushl %%eax\n\t"
 	    "movl 0(%%eax),%%edx\n\t"
 	    "push %%edx\n\t"
 	    "movl 4(%%eax),%%ebx\n\t"
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs
 	    "lahf\n\t"
 	    "shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
 	    "andl $1,%%eax\n"
-	    :"=a"(rc), "+m" (*regs)
+	    :"=a"(rc)
 	    :    "a"(regs)
 	    :    "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
 #endif
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