This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ARC: Don't use "+l" inline asm constraint to the 4.4-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: arc-don-t-use-l-inline-asm-constraint.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3c7c7a2fc8811bc7097479f69acf2527693d7562 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:43:17 -0800 Subject: ARC: Don't use "+l" inline asm constraint From: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 3c7c7a2fc8811bc7097479f69acf2527693d7562 upstream. Apparenty this is coming in the way of gcc fix which inhibits the usage of LP_COUNT as a gpr. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h +++ b/arch/arc/include/asm/delay.h @@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ static inline void __delay(unsigned long loops) { __asm__ __volatile__( - " lp 1f \n" - " nop \n" - "1: \n" - : "+l"(loops)); + " mov lp_count, %0 \n" + " lp 1f \n" + " nop \n" + "1: \n" + : : "r"(loops)); } extern void __bad_udelay(void); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/arc-don-t-use-l-inline-asm-constraint.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