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Commit 6041b57c authored by Joerg Roedel's avatar Joerg Roedel Committed by Linus Torvalds
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i386: work around miscompilation of alternatives code



A recent change makes my Dell 1501 hang on boot.  It's an AMD MK-36.  I use
an x86_64 kernel.  It is 100% reproducible.

I debugged this problem a bit and my compiler[1]interprets the =A constraint
as %rax instead of %edx:%eax on x86_64 which causes the problem.  The appended
patch provides a workaround for this and fixed the hang on my machine.

[1] gcc version 4.1.3 20070429 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-5)

Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: "Joerg Roedel" <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 129a84de
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