On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:27:38AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Incidentally, 11276d53 ("locking/static_keys: Add a new static_key
> interface") breaks old-ish compilers (gcc version 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat
> 4.4.4-2) (GCC)):
>
>
>
> CC arch/x86/kernel/nmi.o
> In file included from
> /home/build/linux-boris/include/linux/jump_label.h:109,
> from
> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:5,
> from /home/build/linux-boris/include/linux/spinlock.h:88,
> from /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c:14:
> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h: In function
> ‘nmi_handle’:
> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:21: warning: asm
> operand 0 probably doesn’t match constraints
> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:21: error:
> impossible constraint in ‘asm’
> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/nmi.o] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
> make[1]: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
Ugh bugger.
I bet its that: &((char *)key)[branch] business, an earlier variant
thereof tripped up more recent GCCs too.
So its an __always_inline function, and both argument are always compile
time constants, @key is the address of an object in static storage (a
global) and @branch is a simple 0/1 at the call site.
Now we wish to compute (unsigned long)key + branch at compile/link time
to feed to the assembler as an immediate, which should be possible,
given its all 'constants'.
It just appears GCC is having a hard time with this.
Let me see if I have a sufficiently old GCC around to play with.
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