Re: [patch] 2.6.4 remove intermittent warnings from spinlock code

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:34:43PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> Hmmh, in my opinion GCC should put a stop-bit when using a register
> after an "asm" that marks that register as "clobbered".  For now, I
> put an explicit stop-bit after the McKinley spinlock versions (the
> Merced ones should be OK because they already have a stop-bit after
> writing p14).  We should still sort out why GCC doesn't get this
> right.

I'm not a compiler person, but ...

Seems to me that doing exactly what you're asking for is hard.  Editing
the inline asm to use a stop-bit if the compiler needs to reuse that
register would be a really awful layering violation.  But it shouldn't
be too hard for p14 to be considered unavailable until the next stop
bit has been issued.

Al, want to raise this on the gcc mailing list?

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