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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] frv: fix build failure
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 22:32:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171203223226.GA3741@sudip-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a6fe86e-7a66-56df-3b1d-e2e8cd3e6eae@synopsys.com>

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:25:16AM -0800, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> +CC linux-arch, Arnd
> 
> On 11/23/2017 09:17 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> >Hi Sudip,
> >
> >On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 22:10 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

<snip>

> I understand the case/need for adding a weak/common abort() as a
> quick fix for handling such cases, but perhaps we should not and
> instead fix the rootcause. In this specific case, Claudiu mentioned
> that gcc was generating abort due to something like this (flagging a
> possible divide by zero due to
> -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference.
> 
> a;
> 
> fn1() {
>   switch (a)
>   case 0:
>   return 1 / a;
> }
> 
> Sudeep can you confirm that removing this hacking FRV build to not
> have this toggle fixes the abort issue.
> 
> So the offending code needs to be fixed as in the end when that code
> path is taken system is hosed.

The above case that you mentioned is indeed the case here.
mpihelp_divrem() in lib/mpi/mpih-div.c has this same divide by zero case.

So, what should be the actual fix here?

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From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] frv: fix build failure
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2017 22:32:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171203223226.GA3741@sudip-laptop> (raw)
Message-ID: <20171203223226.uTI0ywRtbcjzv8eqo_GHuvcp-bva5YatkUuC7FLuy0M@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a6fe86e-7a66-56df-3b1d-e2e8cd3e6eae@synopsys.com>

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:25:16AM -0800, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> +CC linux-arch, Arnd
> 
> On 11/23/2017 09:17 AM, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> >Hi Sudip,
> >
> >On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 22:10 +0000, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:

<snip>

> I understand the case/need for adding a weak/common abort() as a
> quick fix for handling such cases, but perhaps we should not and
> instead fix the rootcause. In this specific case, Claudiu mentioned
> that gcc was generating abort due to something like this (flagging a
> possible divide by zero due to
> -fno-isolate-erroneous-paths-dereference.
> 
> a;
> 
> fn1() {
>   switch (a)
>   case 0:
>   return 1 / a;
> }
> 
> Sudeep can you confirm that removing this hacking FRV build to not
> have this toggle fixes the abort issue.
> 
> So the offending code needs to be fixed as in the end when that code
> path is taken system is hosed.

The above case that you mentioned is indeed the case here.
mpihelp_divrem() in lib/mpi/mpih-div.c has this same divide by zero case.

So, what should be the actual fix here?

--
Regards
Sudip

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-03 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1511302233-5008-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <1511457437.32422.6.camel@synopsys.com>
2017-11-27 18:25   ` [PATCH] frv: fix build failure Vineet Gupta
2017-12-03 22:32     ` Sudip Mukherjee [this message]
2017-12-03 22:32       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2017-12-06 22:00       ` Vineet Gupta

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