netdev - Re: iwlegacy: mark il_adjust_beacon

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Message-Id: <20151211115037.B4125141D60@smtp.codeaurora.org>
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 2015 11:50:37 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	nico@...aro.org
Subject: Re: iwlegacy: mark il_adjust_beacon_interval as noinline


> With the new optimized do_div() code, some versions of gcc
> produce obviously incorrect code that leads to a link error
> in iwlegacy/common.o:
> 
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `il_send_rxon_timing':
> :(.text+0xa6b4d4): undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN'
> :(.text+0xa6b4f0): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
> 
> In a few thousand randconfig builds, I have seen this problem
> a couple of times in this file, but never anywhere else in the
> kernel, so we can try to work around this in the only file
> that shows the behavior, by marking the il_adjust_beacon_interval
> function as noinline, which convinces gcc to use the unoptimized
> do_div() all the time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo
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