From: Anton Blanchard Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 22:29:27 +0000 (+1000) Subject: powerpc: Fix bad inline asm constraint in create_zero_mask() X-Git-Tag: v3.16.36~49 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=17cabcb4ab60c2bb30fce5ae8f94fd9d3755bbf8;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git powerpc: Fix bad inline asm constraint in create_zero_mask() commit b4c112114aab9aff5ed4568ca5e662bb02cdfe74 upstream. 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. Fixes: d0cebfa650a0 ("powerpc: word-at-a-time optimization for 64-bit Little Endian") Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman [bwh: Backported to 3.16: same issue exists with a different variable in find_zero()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h index 9a5c928bb3c64..67af1f8b45835 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static inline unsigned long find_zero(unsigned long mask) "andc %1,%1,%2\n\t" "popcntd %0,%1" : "=r" (leading_zero_bits), "=&r" (trailing_zero_bit_mask) - : "r" (mask)); + : "b" (mask)); return leading_zero_bits >> 3; }