From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>, <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:49:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160216194947.328334481@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20160216194908.005437159@goodmis.org
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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@arndb.de
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.30+
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 00b042c49ccd..48f5aab117ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
*/
#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 \
--
2.6.4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-16 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 19:49 [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: A couple of fixes Steven Rostedt
2016-02-16 19:49 ` [PATCH 1/2] tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline Steven Rostedt
2016-02-16 20:09 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2016-02-16 20:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2016-02-16 19:49 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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