Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: mark more local variables as volatile

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Wed Aug 09 2023 - 09:17:15 EST




Le 09/08/2023 à 15:10, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> A while ago I created a2305e3de8193 ("powerpc: mark local variables
> around longjmp as volatile") in order to allow building powerpc with
> -Wextra enabled on gcc-11.

Should this be explained in
https://docs.kernel.org/process/volatile-considered-harmful.html ?

Christophe


>
> I tried this again with gcc-13 and found two more of the same issues,
> presumably based on slightly different optimization paths being taken
> here:
>
> arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:3306:27: error: variable 'mm' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Werror=clobbered]
> arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c:353:22: error: variable 'i' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Werror=clobbered]
>
> I checked a bunch of randconfigs and found only these two, so just
> address them the same way as the others.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c | 2 +-
> arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> index 252724ed666a3..ef5c2d25ec397 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/crash.c
> @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(crash_shutdown_unregister);
>
> void default_machine_crash_shutdown(struct pt_regs *regs)
> {
> - unsigned int i;
> + volatile unsigned int i;
> int (*old_handler)(struct pt_regs *regs);
>
> if (TRAP(regs) == INTERRUPT_SYSTEM_RESET)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> index 3b6f524c790e3..9e12b75850d75 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c
> @@ -3303,7 +3303,7 @@ static void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
> {
> unsigned long tskv = 0;
> struct task_struct *volatile tsk = NULL;
> - struct mm_struct *mm;
> + struct mm_struct *volatile mm;
> pgd_t *pgdp;
> p4d_t *p4dp;
> pud_t *pudp;