[PATCH] powerpc/asm: Mark cr0 as clobbered in mftb()

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Jul 10 21:50:06 AEST 2017


Oliver O'Halloran <oohall at gmail.com> writes:

> The workaround for the CELL timebase bug does not correctly mark cr0 as
> being clobbered. This can result in GCC making some poor^W completely
> broken optimisations.

Fruit 'n oats, how did we never notice that? Luck I guess. Or subtle
breakage that no one could pin down :E

I'll tag it for stable.

Your change log is not entirely fair, it's not GCC's fault, we changed
register state without telling it, so it's on us :)  I'll reword it a
bit here.

cheers

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> index 7e50e47375d6..a3b6575c7842 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/reg.h
> @@ -1303,7 +1303,7 @@ static inline void msr_check_and_clear(unsigned long bits)
>  				"	.llong 0\n"			\
>  				".previous"				\
>  			: "=r" (rval) \
> -			: "i" (CPU_FTR_CELL_TB_BUG), "i" (SPRN_TBRL)); \
> +			: "i" (CPU_FTR_CELL_TB_BUG), "i" (SPRN_TBRL) : "cr0"); \
>  			rval;})
>  #else
>  #define mftb()		({unsigned long rval;	\
> -- 
> 2.9.4


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