From: sgruszka@redhat.com (Stanislaw Gruszka)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] iwlegacy: mark il_adjust_beacon_interval as noinline
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 12:08:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151210110801.GA2010@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36263581.L8412YxJjp@wuerfel>
On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 05:42:41PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> With the new optimized do_div() code, some versions of gcc
> produce obviously incorrect code that leads to a link error
> in iwlegacy/common.o:
>
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `il_send_rxon_timing':
> :(.text+0xa6b4d4): undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN'
> :(.text+0xa6b4f0): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
>
> In a few thousand randconfig builds, I have seen this problem
> a couple of times in this file, but never anywhere else in the
> kernel, so we can try to work around this in the only file
> that shows the behavior, by marking the il_adjust_beacon_interval
> function as noinline, which convinces gcc to use the unoptimized
> do_div() all the time.
I don't think this is good way to "fix" the issue, but also have
nothing against to this particular change.
Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-10 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-09 16:42 [PATCH] iwlegacy: mark il_adjust_beacon_interval as noinline Arnd Bergmann
2015-12-09 17:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2015-12-10 11:08 ` Stanislaw Gruszka [this message]
2015-12-11 11:50 ` Kalle Valo
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