Re: [PATCH 3.15 33/37] Fix gcc-4.9.0 miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler

Markus Trippelsdorf
2014-08-05T11:46:49Z

On 2014.08.05 at 07:31 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Sorry to bring this back up after the fact, but it's important for a
> number of things in various distros. I don't disagree it should be
> disabled by default, but making it unconditional is going to force the
> distributions that care about perf, systemtap, and debuggers to
> manually revert this. That deviation is concerning because the
> upstream kernel won't easily be buildable the same way distros build
> it.
>
> I'm happy to come up with a config option patch, but I'm not sure if
> it would be accepted. Is that a possibility at this point?

Please note that https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61923
isn't fixed yet. So it would be premature to manually revert Linus'
patch yet.

When PR61923 gets fixed (and backported) its testcase could be combined
with the testcase Jakub posted earlier in this thread.

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Markus