On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:33 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Please note that this pull request is RFC due to the top commit: > > ec1e1b610917: objtool: Prevent GCC from merging annotate_unreachable(), > take 2 > > ... which is admittedly somewhat of an ad-hoc workaround for something the > compiler should have done - if there's another solution we can try that.
So I'm certainly ok with that workaround since apparently "asm volatile" doesn't do it. That said, I think that if that asm needs to not be merged, it should _also_ be marked as "volatile" - since that's the documented bit for "not moved significantly". Of course, then because apparently that isn't enough, the __COUNTER__ games are ok, but might really mention an explicit comment in the code as to why they exist. Because right now they look just odd and nonsensical. Linus