compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation bug
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:16:30 +0000 (10:16 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:02:03 +0000 (14:02 +0000)
commit 3f0116c3238a96bc18ad4b4acefe4e7be32fa861 upstream.

Fengguang Wu, Oleg Nesterov and Peter Zijlstra tracked down
a kernel crash to a GCC bug: GCC miscompiles certain 'asm goto'
constructs, as outlined here:

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58670

Implement a workaround suggested by Jakub Jelinek.

Reported-and-tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop inapplicable changes
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

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