Commit 22d3243d authored by Jim Bos's avatar Jim Bos Committed by Linus Torvalds

Fix gcc 4.5.1 miscompiling drivers/char/i8k.c (again)

The fix in commit 6b4e81db ("i8k: Tell gcc that *regs gets
clobbered") to work around the gcc miscompiling i8k.c to add "+m
(*regs)" caused register pressure problems and a build failure.

Changing the 'asm' statement to 'asm volatile' instead should prevent
that and works around the gcc bug as well, so we can remove the "+m".

[ Background on the gcc bug: a memory clobber fails to mark the function
  the asm resides in as non-pure (aka "__attribute__((const))"), so if
  the function does nothing else that triggers the non-pure logic, gcc
  will think that that function has no side effects at all. As a result,
  callers will be mis-compiled.

  Adding the "+m" made gcc see that it's not a pure function, and so
  does "asm volatile". The problem was never really the need to mark
  "*regs" as changed, since the memory clobber did that part - the
  problem was just a bug in the gcc "pure" function analysis  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJim Bos <jim876@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: default avatarJakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 620751a2
......@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs)
int eax = regs->eax;
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64)
asm("pushq %%rax\n\t"
asm volatile("pushq %%rax\n\t"
"movl 0(%%rax),%%edx\n\t"
"pushq %%rdx\n\t"
"movl 4(%%rax),%%ebx\n\t"
......@@ -142,11 +142,11 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs)
"lahf\n\t"
"shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
"andl $1,%%eax\n"
:"=a"(rc), "+m" (*regs)
:"=a"(rc)
: "a"(regs)
: "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
#else
asm("pushl %%eax\n\t"
asm volatile("pushl %%eax\n\t"
"movl 0(%%eax),%%edx\n\t"
"push %%edx\n\t"
"movl 4(%%eax),%%ebx\n\t"
......@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs)
"lahf\n\t"
"shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
"andl $1,%%eax\n"
:"=a"(rc), "+m" (*regs)
:"=a"(rc)
: "a"(regs)
: "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
#endif
......
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