linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get

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Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 06:49:22 +0200
From:   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, npiggin@...il.com,
        segher@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with
 __put_user()/__get_user()



Le 07/07/2020 à 21:02, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
> 
> 
> Le 07/07/2020 à 14:44, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Le 30/06/2020 à 03:19, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>>> Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> writes:
>>>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu> writes:
>>>>> Hi Michael,
>>>>>
>>>>> I see this patch is marked as "defered" in patchwork, but I can't see
>>>>> any related discussion. Is it normal ?
>>>>
>>>> Because it uses the "m<>" constraint which didn't work on GCC 4.6.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/297
>>>>
>>>> So we should be able to pick it up for v5.9 hopefully.
>>>
>>> It seems to break the build with the kernel.org 4.9.4 compiler and
>>> corenet64_smp_defconfig:
>>
>> Most likely a GCC bug ?
>>
>> It seems the problem vanishes with patch 
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/173de3b659fa3a5f126a0eb170522cccd909950f.1594125164.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/ 
>>
> 
> Same kind of issue in signal_64.c now.
> 
> The following patch fixes it: 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/810bd8840ef990a200f58c9dea9abe767ca02a3a.1594146723.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/ 
> 
> 

This time I confirm, with the two above mentioned patches, it builds OK 
with 4.9, see 
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/810bd8840ef990a200f58c9dea9abe767ca02a3a/

Christophe