Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752852AbaBMGsc (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:48:32 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:63812 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444AbaBMGsa (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:48:30 -0500 Message-ID: <1392274106.28471.2.camel@marge.simpson.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] compiler/gcc4: make quirk for asm_volatile_goto unconditional From: Mike Galbraith To: Steven Noonan Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:48:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1392267191-6708-1-git-send-email-steven@uplinklabs.net> References: <1392267191-6708-1-git-send-email-steven@uplinklabs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:QCUO8aGxQSYvbO6cbFhPNsoo8P1aAgB4dgee3pzflkB 7eSspvWIbpZQaQjxiXdFCzR/0C/iSgHCllIAtAjWsXEcRjz8CF heWXPnC4+K0MPdA89biJzwXWDjtburAlh8KDaCXGyD5OU4P65D 3OTaxGrkhFMjU999pOWF62cguYVrhCBzh+1jFxiP2OB3zSjqro zZMeN2MsoJOl2lm5O6xWP13XIv0nGWTLJRYyDzm4zLr4Xc2eFj QlVGYthv4nYm9hPiXg/8hpbPYwjvEpGyY2wJoDWqRyK5EJzCwX piAhC12lXLL/LUxrBIc0Z17YQdhrnwCR/nfy0+SvAl2a76Wk1r qKfyg4w1G4j2g3Zi/3djrBtRA+/ArH15T61AWLNc51JoPQ/erR P9wQMWILoRYxg== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 20:53 -0800, Steven Noonan wrote: > 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. > > [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670 > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org v3.12+ ? > Signed-off-by: Steven Noonan > --- > include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h | 6 +----- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) > > 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/