From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 23 October 2020 14:23
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 2:46 PM David Laight <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: 22 October 2020 14:51
> >
> > I've rammed the code into godbolt.
> >
> > https://godbolt.org/z/9v5PPW
> >
> > Definitely a clang bug.
> >
> > Search for [wx]24 in the clang output.
> > nr_segs comes in as w2 and the initial bound checks are done on w2.
> > w24 is loaded from w2 - I don't believe this changes the high bits.
>
> You believe wrong, "mov w24, w2" is a zero-extending operation.
Ah ok, but gcc uses utxw for the same task.
I guess they could be the same opcode.
Last time I wrote ARM thumb didn't really exist - never mind 64bit
David
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