[PATCH] powerpc: fix inline asm constraints for dcbz
Nathan Chancellor
natechancellor at gmail.com
Sat Aug 10 06:36:45 AEST 2019
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:21:05AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> The input parameter is modified, so it should be an output parameter
> with "=" to make it so that a copy of the input is not made by Clang.
>
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42762
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Modifiers.html#Modifiers
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/593
> Link: https://godbolt.org/z/QwhZXi
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190721075846.GA97701@archlinux-threadripper/
> Fixes: 6c5875843b87 ("powerpc: slightly improve cache helpers")
> Debugged-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor at gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor at gmail.com>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
I applied this patch as well as a revert of the original patch and both
clang and GCC appear to generate the same code; I think a straight
revert would be better.
Crude testing script and the generated files attached.
Cheers,
Nathan
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