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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: mainline build failure of powerpc allmodconfig for prom_init_check
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:38:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADVatmMRC-T3vUfgzya1hYmGOme79kBu2hK2CxBU3+C5h1TAYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whjWyoognKy4QUUwf95L6qvPg7MGdp0CxqD2fpvZo7DLw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:29 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 1:25 PM Sudip Mukherjee
> <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.  :(


-- 
Regards
Sudip

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-17 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-14  8:55 mainline build failure of powerpc allmodconfig for prom_init_check Sudip Mukherjee (Codethink)
2022-07-17  9:12 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2022-07-17 14:44   ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-17 19:54     ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-07-18  3:52       ` Michael Ellerman
2022-07-18 14:56         ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-07-17 20:25     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2022-07-17 20:29       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-17 20:38         ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2022-07-17 20:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-17 20:56         ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-07-17 21:11           ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-17 21:45             ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-07-18  1:38               ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-18  4:41   ` Michael Ellerman
2022-07-18  7:51     ` David Laight
2022-07-18 13:44     ` [PATCH] powerpc/64s: Disable stack variable initialisation for prom_init Michael Ellerman
2022-07-18 15:03       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2022-07-18 18:34       ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-18 19:06     ` mainline build failure of powerpc allmodconfig for prom_init_check Linus Torvalds
2022-07-18 22:08       ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-07-18 22:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2022-07-19 13:35       ` Michael Ellerman

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