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Josh Stone authored
When compiling an i386_defconfig kernel with gcc-4.6.1-9.fc15.i686, I noticed a warning about the asm operand for test_bit in kprobes' can_boost. I discovered that this caused only the first long of twobyte_is_boostable[] to be output. Jakub filed and fixed gcc PR50571 to correct the warning and this output issue. But to solve it for less current gcc, we can make kprobes' twobyte_is_boostable[] non-const, and it won't be optimized out. Before: CC arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o In file included from include/linux/bitops.h:22:0, from include/linux/kernel.h:17, from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44, from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5, from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15, from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6, from include/linux/atomic.h:4, from include/linux/mutex.h:18, from include/linux/notifier.h:13, from include/linux/kprobes.h:34, from arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:43: [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In function ‘can_boost.part.1’: [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:319:2: warning: use of memory input without lvalue in asm operand 1 is deprecated [enabled by default] $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt 551: 0f a3 05 00 00 00 00 bt %eax,0x0 554: R_386_32 .rodata.cst4 $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o: file format elf32-i386 Contents of section .data: 0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 H............... Contents of section .rodata.cst4: 0000 4c030000 L... Only a single long of twobyte_is_boostable[] is in the object file. After, without the const on twobyte_is_boostable: $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt 551: 0f a3 05 20 00 00 00 bt %eax,0x20 554: R_386_32 .data $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o: file format elf32-i386 Contents of section .data: 0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 H............... 0010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ................ 0020 4c030000 0f000200 ffff0000 ffcff0c0 L............... 0030 0000ffff 3bbbfff8 03ff2ebb 26bb2e77 ....;.......&..w Now all 32 bytes are output into .data instead. Signed-off-by:
Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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