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Message-ID: <tip-dff38e3e93bbc10653a232f68077e5d031624464@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:22:01 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Andi Kleen <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	ak@...ux.intel.com, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...ux.intel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/asmlinkage] x86:
  Use inline assembler instead of global register variable to get sp

Commit-ID:  dff38e3e93bbc10653a232f68077e5d031624464
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/dff38e3e93bbc10653a232f68077e5d031624464
Author:     Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:07:57 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:17:17 -0800

x86: Use inline assembler instead of global register variable to get sp

LTO in gcc 4.6/47. has trouble with global register variables. They were used
to read the stack pointer. Use a simple inline assembler statement with
a mov instead.

This also helps LLVM/clang, which does not support global register
variables.

[ hpa: Ideally this should become a builtin in both gcc and clang. ]

v2: More general asm constraint. Fix description (Jan Beulich)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...ux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 3ba3de4..e1940c0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -163,9 +163,11 @@ struct thread_info {
  */
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
-
-/* how to get the current stack pointer from C */
-register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm("esp") __used;
+#define current_stack_pointer ({		\
+	unsigned long sp;			\
+	asm("mov %%esp,%0" : "=g" (sp));	\
+	sp;					\
+})
 
 /* how to get the thread information struct from C */
 static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
--
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