linux/debian/patches/mips-io-bad-code.patch

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From: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:28:15 +0000
To: git-commits@linux-mips.org
Subject: [MIPS] Work around bad code generation for <asm/io.h>.
Author: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Wed Mar 15 11:36:31 2006 +0000
Commit: 6a186683e0a3d51836b6ef6b971508861c7002b5
Gitweb: http://www.linux-mips.org/g/linux/6a186683
Branch: master
If a call to set_io_port_base() was being followed by usage of
mips_io_port_base in the same function gcc was possibly using the old
value due to some clever abuse of const. Adding a barrier will keep
the optimization and result in correct code with latest gcc.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
---
include/asm-mips/io.h | 18 +++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-mips/io.h b/include/asm-mips/io.h
index 5c6d6ab..02995ad 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/io.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/io.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
* for more details.
*
* Copyright (C) 1994, 1995 Waldorf GmbH
- * Copyright (C) 1994 - 2000 Ralf Baechle
+ * Copyright (C) 1994 - 2000, 06 Ralf Baechle
* Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
* Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 MIPS Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
* Author: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com>
@@ -103,8 +103,20 @@
*/
extern const unsigned long mips_io_port_base;
-#define set_io_port_base(base) \
- do { * (unsigned long *) &mips_io_port_base = (base); } while (0)
+/*
+ * Gcc will generate code to load the value of mips_io_port_base after each
+ * function call which may be fairly wasteful in some cases. So we don't
+ * play quite by the book. We tell gcc mips_io_port_base is a long variable
+ * which solves the code generation issue. Now we need to violate the
+ * aliasing rules a little to make initialization possible and finally we
+ * will need the barrier() to fight side effects of the aliasing chat.
+ * This trickery will eventually collapse under gcc's optimizer. Oh well.
+ */
+static inline void set_io_port_base(unsigned long base)
+{
+ * (unsigned long *) &mips_io_port_base = base;
+ barrier();
+}
/*
* Thanks to James van Artsdalen for a better timing-fix than