Re: [PATCH 2/4] msm: scm: Fix improper register assignment

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 02/25/2011 05:23 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 18:44 +0000, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> Assign the registers used in the inline assembly immediately
>> before the inline assembly block. This ensures the compiler
>> doesn't optimize away dead register assignments when it
>> shouldn't.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/mach-msm/scm.c |    7 +++++--
>>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-msm/scm.c b/arch/arm/mach-msm/scm.c
>> index ba57b5a..5eddf54 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-msm/scm.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-msm/scm.c
>> @@ -264,13 +264,16 @@ u32 scm_get_version(void)
>>  {
>>         int context_id;
>>         static u32 version = -1;
>> -       register u32 r0 asm("r0") = 0x1 << 8;
>> -       register u32 r1 asm("r1") = (u32)&context_id;
>> +       register u32 r0 asm("r0");
>> +       register u32 r1 asm("r1");
>>
>>         if (version != -1)
>>                 return version;
>>
>>         mutex_lock(&scm_lock);
>> +
>> +       r0 = 0x1 << 8;
>> +       r1 = (u32)&context_id;
>>         asm volatile(
>>                 __asmeq("%0", "r1")
>>                 __asmeq("%1", "r0")
>
>
> Whoa, have you seen the compiler `optimise' the original assignments
> away? Since there is a use in the asm block, the definition shouldn't
> be omitted. What toolchain are you using

Yes I've seen the r0 and r1 assignments get optimized away. I'm
suspecting it's because the mutex_lock() is between the assignments and
usage. I'm guessing the assignment to r0 and r1 are actually generated,
but then they're optimized away because the mutex_lock() isn't inlined
and thus r0 and r1 assigned to something that isn't &scm_lock can be
"safely" removed (dead register assignments). I can't confirm any of
this since I don't know what gcc is doing internally or even how to
probe what it's doing (yeah I know I could go read gcc sources).
Suggestions?

I've seen it with two different compilers so far:

gcc (Sourcery G++ Lite 2010.09-50) 4.5.1
arm-eabi-gcc (GCC) 4.4.0

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