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[3.11,103/121] compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for asm_volatile_goto() unconditional

Message ID 1392986945-9693-104-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Feb. 21, 2014, 12:48 p.m. UTC 
3.11.10.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Steven Noonan <steven@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@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@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@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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 include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
index ded4299..2507fd2 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
@@ -75,11 +75,7 @@ 
  *
  * (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 GCC_VERSION >= 40400