This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tracing-fix-freak-link-error-caused-by-branch-tracer.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b33c8ff4431a343561e2319f17c14286f2aa52e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 22:26:42 +0100 Subject: tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit b33c8ff4431a343561e2319f17c14286f2aa52e2 upstream. In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several components: * gcc-4.9 through at least 5.3 * CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL enabling -fprofile-arcs for all files * CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES overriding every if() * The optimized implementation of do_div() that tries to replace a library call with an division by multiplication * code in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c doing u32 adc_clock = 450560; /* 45.056 MHz */ if (state->config.adc_clock) adc_clock = state->config.adc_clock; do_div(value, adc_clock); In this case, gcc fails to determine whether the divisor in do_div() is __builtin_constant_p(). In particular, it concludes that __builtin_constant_p(adc_clock) is false, while __builtin_constant_p(!!adc_clock) is true. That in turn throws off the logic in do_div() that also uses __builtin_constant_p(), and instead of picking either the constant- optimized division, and the code in ilog2() that uses __builtin_constant_p() to figure out whether it knows the answer at compile time. The result is a link error from failing to find multiple symbols that should never have been called based on the __builtin_constant_p(): dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN' dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined! This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather than checking whether it is actually a constant. I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455312410-1058841-1-git-send-email-arnd@xxxxxxxx Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_ */ #define if(cond, ...) __trace_if( (cond , ## __VA_ARGS__) ) #define __trace_if(cond) \ - if (__builtin_constant_p((cond)) ? !!(cond) : \ + if (__builtin_constant_p(!!(cond)) ? !!(cond) : \ ({ \ int ______r; \ static struct ftrace_branch_data \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext.patch queue-3.10/tracing-fix-freak-link-error-caused-by-branch-tracer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html