Re: [PATCH] powerpc/ftrace: fix constraint to be early clobber

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Fri May 15 2009 - 18:28:27 EST


On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:33 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> After upgrading my distcc boxes from gcc 4.2.2 to 4.4.0, the function
> graph tracer broke. This was discovered on my x86 boxes.
>
> The issue is that gcc used the same register for an output as it did for
> an input in an asm statement. I first thought this was a bug in gcc and
> reported it. I was notified that gcc was correct and that the output had
> to be flagged as an "early clobber".
>
> I noticed that powerpc had the same issue and this patch fixes it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Ack. You merge this or I do ?

Cheers,
Ben.

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
> index 70e2a73..68fd74e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ftrace.c
> @@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ void prepare_ftrace_return(unsigned long *parent, unsigned long self_addr)
> PPC_LONG "2b,4b\n"
> ".previous"
>
> - : [old] "=r" (old), [faulted] "=r" (faulted)
> + : [old] "=&r" (old), [faulted] "=r" (faulted)
> : [parent] "r" (parent), [return_hooker] "r" (return_hooker)
> : "memory"
> );
>
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