powerpc: create_zero_mask() has bad inline assembly constraint
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue May 3 22:08:53 AEST 2016
On Fri, 2016-29-04 at 22:29:27 UTC, Unknown sender due to SPF wrote:
> In create_zero_mask() we have:
>
> addi %1,%2,-1
> andc %1,%1,%2
> popcntd %0,%1
>
> using the "r" constraint for %2. r0 is a valid register in the "r" set,
> but addi X,r0,X turns it into an li:
>
> li r7,-1
> andc r7,r7,r0
> popcntd r4,r7
>
> Fix this by using the "b" constraint, for which r0 is not a valid
> register.
>
> This was found with a kernel build using gcc trunk, narrowed down to
> when -frename-registers was enabled at -O2. It is just luck however
> that we aren't seeing this on older toolchains.
>
> Thanks to Segher for working with me to find this issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Fixes: d0cebfa650a0 ("powerpc: word-at-a-time optimization for 64-bit Little Endian")
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b4c112114aab9aff5ed4568ca5
cheers
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