From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
LTO in gcc 4.6/47. has trouble with global register variables. They were used
to read the stack pointer. Use a simple inline assembler statement instead.
I verified this generates the same binary (on 64bit) as the original
register variable.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 8 +++++---
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
index 89f794f..d9fbfa1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -167,9 +167,11 @@ struct thread_info {
*/
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
-
-/* how to get the current stack pointer from C */
-register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm("esp") __used;
+#define current_stack_pointer ({ \
+ unsigned long sp; \
+ asm("mov %%esp,%0" : "=r" (sp)); \
+ sp; \
+})
/* how to get the thread information struct from C */
static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
--
1.7.7.6
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