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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2016-02-12 22:26:42 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-02-25 12:01:16 -0800
commit2fa82bbbc73a7d8716e3f7aba6b2b5c84147a2fc (patch)
tree33bf2bab8360b83c4d2dc13512d9ca3febee2c07 /README
parent6fa74f50e357b0d87fad34a4b7ccbc2beb42b859 (diff)
tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer
commit b33c8ff4431a343561e2319f17c14286f2aa52e2 upstream. In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several components: * gcc-4.9 through at least 5.3 * CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL enabling -fprofile-arcs for all files * CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES overriding every if() * The optimized implementation of do_div() that tries to replace a library call with an division by multiplication * code in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c doing u32 adc_clock = 450560; /* 45.056 MHz */ if (state->config.adc_clock) adc_clock = state->config.adc_clock; do_div(value, adc_clock); In this case, gcc fails to determine whether the divisor in do_div() is __builtin_constant_p(). In particular, it concludes that __builtin_constant_p(adc_clock) is false, while __builtin_constant_p(!!adc_clock) is true. That in turn throws off the logic in do_div() that also uses __builtin_constant_p(), and instead of picking either the constant- optimized division, and the code in ilog2() that uses __builtin_constant_p() to figure out whether it knows the answer at compile time. The result is a link error from failing to find multiple symbols that should never have been called based on the __builtin_constant_p(): dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN' dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined! ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined! This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather than checking whether it is actually a constant. I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455312410-1058841-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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