linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug

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Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2014 20:11:49 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Steven Noonan <steven@...inklabs.net> wrote:
>
> If I change the GCC_VERSION check for the asm_volatile_goto quirk to
> include 4.8.2, then KVM guests are properly cleaned up.

Ok, I guess that means we should just make the quirk unconditional.

Ingo, do you want to do that or should I?

> So is there some other 'asm goto' bug we haven't yet fully uncovered
> and reported to GCC upstream?

Not to my knowledge. But I'm sure Jakub&co would love to have a test-case.

Sadly, gcc has that really annoying habit of making small changes
create *huge* changes in label numbers etc, and that's definitely the
case with the extra empty asm - it's basically impossible to compare
the generated asm with and without the workaround, because all the
label numbers change.

I have no idea how gcc people debug things like this, when the output
is so unstable.

Jakub, any suggestions to how Steven might be able to pinpoint where
the code generation problem lies?

                Linus
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