Re: [PATCH] incorrect asm constraints for ll/sc constructs

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:42:56PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > The ll/sc constructs in the kernel use ".set noat" to inhibit use of $at,
> > and proceed to use it themselves.  This is fine, except for one problem: the
> > constraints on memory operands are "o" and "=o", which means offsettable
> > memory references.  If I'm not mistaken, the assembler will (always?)
> > turn these into uses of $at if the offset is not 0 - at least, it certainly
> > seems to do that here (gcc 2.95.3, binutils 2.10.91.0.2).  Just being honest
> > with the compiler and asking for a real memory reference does the trick. 
> 
>  Both "m" and "o" seem to be incorrect here as both are the same for MIPS; 
> "R" seems to be appropriate, OTOH.  Still gcc 2.95.3 doesn't handle "R" 
> fine for all cases, but it works most of the time and emits a warning
> otherwise.  I can't comment on 3.0.

I admit the construction is somewhat fragile and will take any patches to
cleanup this.

  Ralf