SOURCES: linux-gcc.patch (NEW) - don't overoptimize when using gcc 4.3
arekm
arekm at pld-linux.org
Sun Jul 27 23:08:17 CEST 2008
Author: arekm Date: Sun Jul 27 21:08:17 2008 GMT
Module: SOURCES Tag: HEAD
---- Log message:
- don't overoptimize when using gcc 4.3
---- Files affected:
SOURCES:
linux-gcc.patch (NONE -> 1.1) (NEW)
---- Diffs:
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Index: SOURCES/linux-gcc.patch
diff -u /dev/null SOURCES/linux-gcc.patch:1.1
--- /dev/null Sun Jul 27 23:08:17 2008
+++ SOURCES/linux-gcc.patch Sun Jul 27 23:08:11 2008
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+commit 38332cb98772f5ea757e6486bed7ed0381cb5f98
+Author: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
+Date: Tue Mar 4 14:59:54 2008 -0800
+
+ time: prevent the loop in timespec_add_ns() from being optimised away
+
+ Since some architectures don't support __udivdi3().
+
+ Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel.crashing.org>
+ Cc: john stultz <johnstul at us.ibm.com>
+ Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
+ Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
+ Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
+
+diff --git a/include/linux/time.h b/include/linux/time.h
+index 2091a19..d32ef0a 100644
+--- a/include/linux/time.h
++++ b/include/linux/time.h
+@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ static inline void timespec_add_ns(struct timespec *a, u64 ns)
+ {
+ ns += a->tv_nsec;
+ while(unlikely(ns >= NSEC_PER_SEC)) {
++ /* The following asm() prevents the compiler from
++ * optimising this loop into a modulo operation. */
++ asm("" : "+r"(ns));
++
+ ns -= NSEC_PER_SEC;
+ a->tv_sec++;
+ }
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