Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:42:06 -0700 | From | Nathan Chancellor <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.3-4 tag |
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:21:01AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 3:11 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > > > > Just one fix, a revert of a commit that was meant to be a minor improvement to > > some inline asm, but ended up having no real benefit with GCC and broke booting > > 32-bit machines when using Clang. > > Pulled, but whenever there are possible subtle compiler issues I get > nervous, and wonder if the problem was reported to the clang guys? > > In particular, if the kernel change was technically correct, maybe > somebody else comes along in a few years and tries the same, and then > it's another odd "why doesn't this work for person X when it works > just fine for me".. > > Linus
It was.
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/593
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42762
We're still waiting for input from the PowerPC backend maintainers as that is most likely where this issue originates from.
Cheers, Nathan
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