x86, hweight: Fix BUG when booting with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y
authorPeter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:58:20 +0000 (15:58 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 1 Apr 2014 23:58:49 +0000 (00:58 +0100)
commitd2fc4a69dadefef65e38ebfb15b8e29d9a3a9206
tree99fe5dd9c3cc6c8445e274e2a26481e0a3201136
parent2fc5a0290af97e1891fedd02961240e92f1619e2
x86, hweight: Fix BUG when booting with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y

commit 6583327c4dd55acbbf2a6f25e775b28b3abf9a42 upstream.

Commit d61931d89b, "x86: Add optimized popcnt variants" introduced
compile flag -fcall-saved-rdi for lib/hweight.c. When combined with
options -fprofile-arcs and -O2, this flag causes gcc to generate
broken constructor code. As a result, a 64 bit x86 kernel compiled
with CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL=y prints message "gcov: could not create
file" and runs into sproadic BUGs during boot.

The gcc people indicate that these kinds of problems are endemic when
using ad hoc calling conventions.  It is therefore best to treat any
file compiled with ad hoc calling conventions as an isolated
environment and avoid things like profiling or coverage analysis,
since those subsystems assume a "normal" calling conventions.

This patch avoids the bug by excluding lib/hweight.o from coverage
profiling.

Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/52F3A30C.7050205@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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