[added to the 3.18 stable tree] powerpc: Fix bad inline asm constraint in create_zero_mask()

Sasha Levin
2016-05-19T04:18:02Z

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit b4c112114aab9aff5ed4568ca5e662bb02cdfe74 ]

In create_zero_mask() we have:

addi %1,%2,-1
andc %1,%1,%2
popcntd %0,%1

using the "r" constraint for %2. r0 is a valid register in the "r" set,
but addi X,r0,X turns it into an li:

li r7,-1
andc r7,r7,r0
popcntd r4,r7

Fix this by using the "b" constraint, for which r0 is not a valid
register.

This was found with a kernel build using gcc trunk, narrowed down to
when -frename-registers was enabled at -O2. It is just luck however
that we aren't seeing this on older toolchains.

Thanks to Segher for working with me to find this issue.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d0cebfa650a0 ("powerpc: word-at-a-time optimization for 64-bit Little Endian")
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
index 5b3a903..7043539 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static inline unsigned long create_zero_mask(unsigned long bits)
"andc %1,%1,%2\n\t"
"popcntd %0,%1"
: "=r" (leading_zero_bits), "=&r" (trailing_zero_bit_mask)
- : "r" (bits));
+ : "b" (bits));

return leading_zero_bits;
}
--
2.5.0