Hi, It seems nobody at the libc-alpha list is intersted in this fix, so I'm sending it here, so that people do not struggle against weird failures, while a fix is already done. The fix is needed for the current version of glibc. Maciej ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0410061929220.17693@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:41:23 +0100 (BST) From: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxx> To: libc-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dominic Sweetman <dom@xxxxxxxx>, Nigel Stephens <nigel@xxxxxxxx>, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [patch] MIPS/Linux: Memory clobber missing from syscalls Hello, There is a problem with all inline syscalls invoked by the library. As "memory" is not included in the list of clobbers, more aggressive versions of GCC, such as 3.4, may incorrectly optimize code away based on the assumption inline syscalls do not modify memory. This indeed happens -- due to this problem the login/tst-utmp and login/tst-utmpx testcases fail. Here is an obvious fix that works for me. Tested with the mips-linux and mipsel-linux configurations. 2004-10-06 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxx> * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h (__SYSCALL_CLOBBERS): Add "memory". * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/sysdep.h (__SYSCALL_CLOBBERS): Likewise. * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/sysdep.h (__SYSCALL_CLOBBERS): Likewise. Please apply. Maciej glibc-2.3.3-mips-syscall_clobbers-0.patch diff -up --recursive --new-file glibc-2.3.3.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h glibc-2.3.3/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h --- glibc-2.3.3.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h Sat Mar 29 08:15:29 2003 +++ glibc-2.3.3/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/sysdep.h Tue Oct 5 17:16:47 2004 @@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ _sys_result; \ }) -#define __SYSCALL_CLOBBERS "$1", "$3", "$8", "$9", "$10", "$11", "$12", "$13", "$14", "$15", "$24", "$25" +#define __SYSCALL_CLOBBERS "$1", "$3", "$8", "$9", "$10", "$11", "$12", \ + "$13", "$14", "$15", "$24", "$25", "memory" #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */ diff -up --recursive --new-file glibc-2.3.3.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/sysdep.h glibc-2.3.3/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/sysdep.h --- glibc-2.3.3.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/sysdep.h Wed Oct 1 06:59:39 2003 +++ glibc-2.3.3/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n32/sysdep.h Tue Oct 5 17:18:03 2004 @@ -235,7 +235,8 @@ _sys_result; \ }) -#define __SYSCALL_CLOBBERS "$1", "$3", "$10", "$11", "$12", "$13", "$14", "$15", "$24", "$25" +#define __SYSCALL_CLOBBERS "$1", "$3", "$10", "$11", "$12", "$13", \ + "$14", "$15", "$24", "$25", "memory" #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */ #endif /* linux/mips/sysdep.h */ diff -up --recursive --new-file glibc-2.3.3.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/sysdep.h glibc-2.3.3/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/sysdep.h --- glibc-2.3.3.macro/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/sysdep.h Wed Oct 1 06:59:40 2003 +++ glibc-2.3.3/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips64/n64/sysdep.h Tue Oct 5 17:18:28 2004 @@ -235,7 +235,8 @@ _sys_result; \ }) -#define __SYSCALL_CLOBBERS "$1", "$3", "$10", "$11", "$12", "$13", "$14", "$15", "$24", "$25" +#define __SYSCALL_CLOBBERS "$1", "$3", "$10", "$11", "$12", "$13", \ + "$14", "$15", "$24", "$25", "memory" #endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */ #endif /* linux/mips/sysdep.h */