Re: Rgeression: 2.6.30-rc6-git3 build error - ICE from drivers/char/random.c

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 19 May 2009, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> 
>  With your patch, the problem still remains. Line 1685 is the end of the patched routine now.

Ok, so can you do two other simple tests:

 - just remove the  "+ (long)&ret" entirely.

   Now, usually gcc doesn't have issues with non-asm things, but that's an 
   odd way of getting the current stack address by lookin gat the address 
   of a variable that hasn't even been used, so maybe it triggers some 
   untested codepath in gcc (and thus the bug).

 - if that doesn't make a difference, then remove the "get_cycles() +" 
   part instead.

   The fact that "arch/x86/include/asm/tsc.h:23" is mentioned in the insn 
   dump does make it look like get_cycles(), but on the other hand I'd 
   have actually expected it to be "arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:112", 
   because that is the location of the actual asm statement. 

Just to see which part of it gcc has issues with.

		Linus