2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Kirill Korotaev patch c1217a75ea102d4e69321f210fab60bc47b9a48e in mainline. x86: mark read_crX() asm code as volatile Some gcc versions (I checked at least 4.1.1 from RHEL5 & 4.1.2 from gentoo) can generate incorrect code with read_crX()/write_crX() functions mix up, due to cached results of read_crX(). The small app for x8664 below compiled with -O2 demonstrates this (i686 does the same thing): Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/asm-i386/system.h | 2 +- include/asm-x86_64/system.h | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/include/asm-i386/system.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/system.h @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static inline unsigned long native_read_ { unsigned long val; /* This could fault if %cr4 does not exist */ - asm("1: movl %%cr4, %0 \n" + asm volatile("1: movl %%cr4, %0 \n" "2: \n" ".section __ex_table,\"a\" \n" ".long 1b,2b \n" --- a/include/asm-x86_64/system.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/system.h @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ static inline void write_cr0(unsigned lo static inline unsigned long read_cr2(void) { unsigned long cr2; - asm("movq %%cr2,%0" : "=r" (cr2)); + asm volatile("movq %%cr2,%0" : "=r" (cr2)); return cr2; } @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static inline void write_cr2(unsigned lo static inline unsigned long read_cr3(void) { unsigned long cr3; - asm("movq %%cr3,%0" : "=r" (cr3)); + asm volatile("movq %%cr3,%0" : "=r" (cr3)); return cr3; } @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static inline void write_cr3(unsigned lo static inline unsigned long read_cr4(void) { unsigned long cr4; - asm("movq %%cr4,%0" : "=r" (cr4)); + asm volatile("movq %%cr4,%0" : "=r" (cr4)); return cr4; } @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ static inline void write_cr4(unsigned lo static inline unsigned long read_cr8(void) { unsigned long cr8; - asm("movq %%cr8,%0" : "=r" (cr8)); + asm volatile("movq %%cr8,%0" : "=r" (cr8)); return cr8; } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/