2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jim Bos <jim...@xs4all.nl>
[ upstream commit 6b4e81db2552bad04100e7d5ddeed7e848f53b48 ]
More recent GCC caused the i8k driver to stop working, on Slackware
compiler was upgraded from gcc-4.4.4 to gcc-4.5.1 after which it didn't
work anymore, meaning the driver didn't load or gave total nonsensical
output.
As it turned out the asm(..) statement forgot to mention it modifies the
*regs variable.
Credits to Andi Kleen and Andreas Schwab for providing the fix.
Signed-off-by: Jim Bos <jim...@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
Index: linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/char/i8k.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/drivers/char/i8k.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/char/i8k.c
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs
"lahf\n\t"
"shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
"andl $1,%%eax\n"
- :"=a"(rc)
+ :"=a"(rc), "+m" (*regs)
: "a"(regs)
: "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
#else
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ static int i8k_smm(struct smm_regs *regs
"movl %%edx,0(%%eax)\n\t"
"lahf\n\t"
"shrl $8,%%eax\n\t"
- "andl $1,%%eax\n":"=a"(rc)
+ "andl $1,%%eax\n"
+ :"=a"(rc), "+m" (*regs)
: "a"(regs)
: "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");
#endif
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