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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/parisc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h b/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h index d2d11b7055ba..8121aa6db2ff 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h +++ b/arch/parisc/include/asm/ldcw.h @@ -33,11 +33,18 @@ #endif /*!CONFIG_PA20*/ -/* LDCW, the only atomic read-write operation PA-RISC has. *sigh*. */ +/* LDCW, the only atomic read-write operation PA-RISC has. *sigh*. + We don't explicitly expose that "*a" may be written as reload + fails to find a register in class R1_REGS when "a" needs to be + reloaded when generating 64-bit PIC code. Instead, we clobber + memory to indicate to the compiler that the assembly code reads + or writes to items other than those listed in the input and output + operands. This may pessimize the code somewhat but __ldcw is + usually used within code blocks surrounded by memory barriors. */ #define __ldcw(a) ({ \ unsigned __ret; \ - __asm__ __volatile__(__LDCW " 0(%2),%0" \ - : "=r" (__ret), "+m" (*(a)) : "r" (a)); \ + __asm__ __volatile__(__LDCW " 0(%1),%0" \ + : "=r" (__ret) : "r" (a) : "memory"); \ __ret; \ }) |