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Commit 76932725 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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x86-32: fix cmpxchg8b_emu build error with clang

The kernel test robot reported that clang no longer compiles the 32-bit
x86 kernel in some configurations due to commit 95ece481


("locking/atomic/x86: Rewrite x86_32 arch_atomic64_{,fetch}_{and,or,xor}()
functions").

The build fails with

  arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg_32.h:149:9: error: inline assembly requires more registers than available

and the reason seems to be that not only does the cmpxchg8b instruction
need four fixed registers (EDX:EAX and ECX:EBX), with the emulation
fallback the inline asm also wants a fifth fixed register for the
address (it uses %esi for that, but that's just a software convention
with cmpxchg8b_emu).

Avoiding using another pointer input to the asm (and just forcing it to
use the "0(%esi)" addressing that we end up requiring for the sw
fallback) seems to fix the issue.

Reported-by: default avatarkernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406230912.F6XFIyA6-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: 95ece481

 ("locking/atomic/x86: Rewrite x86_32 arch_atomic64_{,fetch}_{and,or,xor}() functions")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202406230912.F6XFIyA6-lkp@intel.com/
Suggested-by: default avatarUros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: default avatarUros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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