[PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get_user()

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 07/07/2020 à 21:02, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
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> Le 07/07/2020 à 14:44, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
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>> Le 30/06/2020 à 03:19, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
>>> Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:
>>>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> writes:
>>>>> Hi Michael,
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>>>>> I see this patch is marked as "defered" in patchwork, but I can't see
>>>>> any related discussion. Is it normal ?
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>>>> Because it uses the "m<>" constraint which didn't work on GCC 4.6.
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>>>> https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/297
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>>>> So we should be able to pick it up for v5.9 hopefully.
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>>> It seems to break the build with the kernel.org 4.9.4 compiler and
>>> corenet64_smp_defconfig:
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>> Most likely a GCC bug ?
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>> It seems the problem vanishes with patch 
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/173de3b659fa3a5f126a0eb170522cccd909950f.1594125164.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/ 
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> Same kind of issue in signal_64.c now.
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> The following patch fixes it: 
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/810bd8840ef990a200f58c9dea9abe767ca02a3a.1594146723.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu/ 
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This time I confirm, with the two above mentioned patches, it builds OK 
with 4.9, see 
http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/810bd8840ef990a200f58c9dea9abe767ca02a3a/

Christophe