From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-da0-x233.google.com (mail-da0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48F472C00CF for ; Wed, 1 May 2013 13:54:36 +1000 (EST) Received: by mail-da0-f51.google.com with SMTP id g27so520401dan.38 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 13:24:25 +0930 From: Alan Modra To: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] af_unix: fix a fatal race with bit fields Message-ID: <20130501035425.GD5221@bubble.grove.modra.org> References: <1367370761.11020.22.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <20130501115103.58e40f37@kryten> <1367375060.11020.24.camel@edumazet-glaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1367375060.11020.24.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Cc: netdev , Ambrose Feinstein , Paul Mackerras , Anton Blanchard , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, David Miller List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 07:24:20PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > li 11,1 > ld 0,0(9) > rldimi 0,11,31,32 > std 0,0(9) > blr > .ident "GCC: (GNU) 4.6.3" > > You can see "ld 0,0(9)" is used : its a 64 bit load. Yup. This is not a powerpc64 specific problem. See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52080 Fixed in 4.8.0 and 4.7.3. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM