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* [PATCH 1/3] um: Adjust current_thread_info() for gcc-4.6
@ 2011-04-20 11:34 Richard Weinberger
  2011-04-20 11:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] uml: fix hppfs build Richard Weinberger
       [not found] ` <1303299266-10219-2-git-send-email-richard@nod.at>
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From: Richard Weinberger @ 2011-04-20 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel, user-mode-linux-devel, Richard Weinberger

In some cases gcc-4.6 will optimize away current_thread_info().
To prevent gcc from doing so the stack address has to be obtained
via inline asm.

LKML-Reference: http://marc.info/?i=201104132150.05623.richard@nod.at

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
---
 arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h
index e2cf786..5bd1bad 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@ static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)
 {
 	struct thread_info *ti;
 	unsigned long mask = THREAD_SIZE - 1;
-	ti = (struct thread_info *) (((unsigned long) &ti) & ~mask);
+	void *p;
+
+	asm volatile ("" : "=r" (p) : "0" (&ti));
+	ti = (struct thread_info *) (((unsigned long)p) & ~mask);
 	return ti;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.4.2


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