MN10300: gcc 4.6 vs am33 inline assembly
authorRichard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:42:49 +0000 (17:42 +0000)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:42:49 +0000 (17:42 +0000)
commit5a4b65ab506398ba5a35c37e06edddd387cc0add
tree419fb3b0468f69922bf1a0c6023468ba53c4f608
parent1a8d59e529d07f7888f9c6c86a9f59ea4ef077aa
MN10300: gcc 4.6 vs am33 inline assembly

GCC 4.6 explicitly represents the MDR register.  It may be accessed
via the "z" constraint.  Perhaps more importantly, it tracks when
the MDR register is clobbered and uses the RETF instruction if the
incoming value is still valid.

Thus it is important to (at least) clobber the MDR register in
relevant inline assembly fragments, lest RETF be used incorrectly.

The only instances I could find are here.  There are reads of the
MDR register in kernel/gdb-stub.c, but that's harmless.  Although,
frankly, __builtin_return_address(0) might be a better thing in
those cases.  Certainly MDR isn't going to contain anything else
that might be useful...

Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
arch/mn10300/include/asm/div64.h