Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix inline asm constraints for dcbz

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:21:05AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:

The input parameter is modified, so it should be an output parameter
with "=" to make it so that a copy of the input is not made by Clang.

Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42762
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Modifiers.html#Modifiers
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/593
Link: https://godbolt.org/z/QwhZXi
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190721075846.GA97701@archlinux-threadripper/ (local)
Fixes: 6c5875843b87 ("powerpc: slightly improve cache helpers")
Debugged-by: Nathan Chancellor [off-list ref]
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <redacted>
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

I applied this patch as well as a revert of the original patch and both
clang and GCC appear to generate the same code; I think a straight
revert would be better.

Crude testing script and the generated files attached.

Cheers,
Nathan