From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikhil Rao Subject: [PATCH] eal: fix bug in x86 cmpset Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 02:54:53 +0530 Message-ID: <1475184293-18298-1-git-send-email-nikhil.rao@intel.com> Cc: Nikhil Rao To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga07.intel.com (mga07.intel.com [134.134.136.100]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 958A3568A for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:54:29 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The original code used movl instead of xchgl, this caused rte_atomic64_cmpset to use ebx as the lower dword of the source to cmpxchg8b instead of the lower dword of function argument "src". Reported-by: Job Abraham Tested-by: Job Abraham Signed-off-by: Nikhil Rao --- lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_atomic_32.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_atomic_32.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_atomic_32.h index 2e04c75..fb3abf1 100644 --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_atomic_32.h +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_atomic_32.h @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ rte_atomic64_cmpset(volatile uint64_t *dst, uint64_t exp, uint64_t src) : "memory" ); /* no-clobber list */ #else asm volatile ( - "mov %%ebx, %%edi\n" + "xchgl %%ebx, %%edi;\n" MPLOCKED "cmpxchg8b (%[dst]);" "setz %[res];" -- 2.7.4