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SubjectRE: PROBLEM: compilation issue, inline assembly arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c fails at -O0
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Thank you so much, this patch solves the compilation errors that I was seeing in the Intel compiler, and with gcc -O0
BTW, my charter is to compile the kernel with the Intel compiler, and my testing stops short of verifying that the kernel build actually works.
Best regards, Melanie Blower

-----Original Message-----
From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@zytor.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 4:35 PM
To: Blower, Melanie
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de; mingo@redhat.com; avi@redhat.com; x86@kernel.org; kvm@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: compilation issue, inline assembly arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c fails at -O0

On 11/14/2012 11:45 AM, Blower, Melanie wrote:
> [1.] gcc -O0 assembly arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c gets compilation failure
> -- incorrect register restrictions [2.] Full description of the problem/report:
> I'm trying to compile this file at -O0, but gcc chokes in register allocation at the inline assembly.
>
> In the ordinary Linux build, this file compiles with gcc at -O2, without compilation errors.
>
> At -O0, gcc chokes with this message:
> gcc -w -c ./emulateE.c // (using preprocessed file)
> ./emulateE.c: In function `em_mul_ex':
> ./emulateE.c:1918:5: error: can't find a register in class `AREG' while reloading `asm'
> ./emulateE.c:1918:5: error: `asm' operand has impossible constraints
>
> Explanation:
> The file contains an inline asm of a kind:
>
> __asm__ __volatile__ ( " ..... " :
>
> "=m" ((ctxt)->eflags), "=&r" (_tmp), "+a" (*rax), "+d" (*rdx), "+qm"(ex) :
> "i" (11), "m" ((ctxt)->src . val), "a" (*rax), "d" (*rdx));
>
> Note that "+a" in inputs already means that eax is the return value. An then "a" is used as an output constraint too.
>

Hi Melanie,

Can you test the attached patch?

-hpa


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