[PATCH 3.8 60/67] compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for asm_volatile_goto() unconditional
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Mar 3 18:55:48 UTC 2014
3.8.13.19 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net>
commit a9f180345f5378ac87d80ed0bea55ba421d83859 upstream.
I started noticing problems with KVM guest destruction on Linux
3.12+, where guest memory wasn't being cleaned up. I bisected it
down to the commit introducing the new 'asm goto'-based atomics,
and found this quirk was later applied to those.
Unfortunately, even with GCC 4.8.2 (which ostensibly fixed the
known 'asm goto' bug) I am still getting some kind of
miscompilation. If I enable the asm_volatile_goto quirk for my
compiler, KVM guests are destroyed correctly and the memory is
cleaned up.
So make the quirk unconditional for now, until bug is found
and fixed.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392274867-15236-1-git-send-email-steven@uplinklabs.net
Link: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index e8f0bf9..a11c184 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -77,11 +77,7 @@
*
* (asm goto is automatically volatile - the naming reflects this.)
*/
-#if GCC_VERSION <= 40801
-# define asm_volatile_goto(x...) do { asm goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
-#else
-# define asm_volatile_goto(x...) do { asm goto(x); } while (0)
-#endif
+#define asm_volatile_goto(x...) do { asm goto(x); asm (""); } while (0)
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP
#if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 4
--
1.8.3.2
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