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Subject[087/205] sched: Prevent compiler from optimising the sched_avg_update() loop
2.6.34-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

commit 0d98bb2656e9bd2dfda2d089db1fe1dbdab41504 upstream.

GCC 4.4.1 on ARM has been observed to replace the while loop in
sched_avg_update with a call to uldivmod, resulting in the
following build failure at link-time:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `sched_avg_update':
kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
kernel/sched.c:1261: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

This patch introduces a fake data hazard to the loop body to
prevent the compiler optimising the loop away.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/sched.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1251,6 +1251,12 @@ static void sched_avg_update(struct rq *
s64 period = sched_avg_period();

while ((s64)(rq->clock - rq->age_stamp) > period) {
+ /*
+ * Inline assembly required to prevent the compiler
+ * optimising this loop into a divmod call.
+ * See __iter_div_u64_rem() for another example of this.
+ */
+ asm("" : "+rm" (rq->age_stamp));
rq->age_stamp += period;
rq->rt_avg /= 2;
}



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