Re: mainline build failure of powerpc allmodconfig for prom_init_check

From
Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Date
2022-07-17 20:38:57
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Linus Torvalds, 2022-07-17
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:29 PM Linus Torvalds
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On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 1:25 PM Sudip Mukherjee
[off-list ref] wrote:
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And the generated assembly still has the memset for "struct prom_args".
Strange. That smells like a compiler bug to me.
Both gcc-12 and clang gives this error.
But I can't read powerpc assembly code - it's been too many years, and
even back when I did read it I hated how the register "names" worked.

Maybe it was never the args array, and it was about the other fields.
Not that that makes any sense either, but it makes more sense than the
compiler turning a series of volatile accesses into a memset.
I have also tried adding volatile to all the members of that struct.  :(


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Regards
Sudip
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