Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I get this on my machine. SMP kernel, linus git from this morning. .config 
> and 
> test available on request.

What gcc do you use?

Anyways, does this patch fix it? This might have been Andrew's vaio problem too.

-Andi

i386: Use early clobbers for semaphores now

The new code does clobber the result early, so make sure to tell
gcc to not put it into the same register as a input argument

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux/include/asm-i386/semaphore.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-i386/semaphore.h
+++ linux/include/asm-i386/semaphore.h
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ static inline int down_interruptible(str
                "lea %1,%%eax\n\t"
                "call __down_failed_interruptible\n"
                "2:"
-               :"=a" (result), "+m" (sem->count)
+               :"=&a" (result), "+m" (sem->count)
                :
                :"memory");
        return result;
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ static inline int down_trylock(struct se
                "lea %1,%%eax\n\t"
                "call __down_failed_trylock\n\t"
                "2:\n"
-               :"=a" (result), "+m" (sem->count)
+               :"=&a" (result), "+m" (sem->count)
                :
                :"memory");
        return result;
-
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