Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:48:20 -0200
From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
        Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
        Linux KVM mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, kvm: Remove incorrect redundant assembly constraint
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:48:50PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 11/25/2012 11:22 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Il 21/11/2012 23:41, H. Peter Anvin ha scritto:
> >> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> >>
> >> In __emulate_1op_rax_rdx, we use "+a" and "+d" which are input/output
> >> constraints, and *then* use "a" and "d" as input constraints.  This is
> >> incorrect, but happens to work on some versions of gcc.
> >>
> >> However, it breaks gcc with -O0 and icc, and may break on future
> >> versions of gcc.
> >>
> >> Reported-and-tested-by: Melanie Blower <melanie.blower@intel.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
> >> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/B3584E72CFEBED439A3ECA9BCE67A4EF1B17AF90@FMSMSX107.amr.corp.intel.com
> >> ---
> >>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 3 +--
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> >> index 39171cb..bba39bf 100644
> >> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> >> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c
> >> @@ -426,8 +426,7 @@ static void invalidate_registers(struct x86_emulate_ctxt *ctxt)
> >>  			_ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 3b)				\
> >>  			: "=m" ((ctxt)->eflags), "=&r" (_tmp),		\
> >>  			  "+a" (*rax), "+d" (*rdx), "+qm"(_ex)		\
> >> -			: "i" (EFLAGS_MASK), "m" ((ctxt)->src.val),	\
> >> -			  "a" (*rax), "d" (*rdx));			\
> >> +			: "i" (EFLAGS_MASK), "m" ((ctxt)->src.val));	\
> >>  	} while (0)
> >>  
> >>  /* instruction has only one source operand, destination is implicit (e.g. mul, div, imul, idiv) */
> >>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> > 
> 
> Gleb, Marcelo: are you going to apply this or would you prefer I took it
> in x86/urgent?
> 
> 	-hpa

Feel free to merge it through x86/urgent.

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