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SubjectRe: 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 fails to compile with gcc 4.2
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> On Sunday, 12. November 2006 14:43, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> 'sel' is a variable, so gcc can't provide it as an immediate operand.
>> Specifying it as "rm" instead of "g" would have been better, but can't
>> have any real influence.
>>
>
> Specifying it as "rm" instead of "g" does fix it -- patch attached.
>
>
>> Well, for the code you posted in in the gcc bug, it probaby generated
>> something like
>>
>> mov $0, %fs
>>
>> which is indeed invalid assembly. But the kvm miscompile is something
>> else (running out of registers or something like that).
>>
>
> What am I overlooking? The code is the exact same (except I replaced "u16"
> with "unsigned short" to avoid the #include), and produces the exact same
> error message, and the fix is the same ("g" -> "rm").
>

Well, since it works, I guess I'm overlooking something. Maybe it's
just a bad error message from gcc.

I'll apply this. Thanks!

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- linux-2.6.18/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c.ark 2006-11-12 14:40:09.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c 2006-11-12 14:44:57.000000000 +0100
> @@ -150,12 +150,12 @@
>
> static void load_fs(u16 sel)
> {
> - asm ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "g"(sel));
> + asm ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "rm"(sel));
> }
>
> static void load_gs(u16 sel)
> {
> - asm ("mov %0, %%gs" : : "g"(sel));
> + asm ("mov %0, %%gs" : : "rm"(sel));
> }
>
> #ifndef load_ldt
>


--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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