Re: iwlegacy: mark il_adjust_beacon_interval as noinline

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Fri Dec 11 2015 - 06:50:42 EST



> With the new optimized do_div() code, some versions of gcc
> produce obviously incorrect code that leads to a link error
> in iwlegacy/common.o:
>
> drivers/built-in.o: In function `il_send_rxon_timing':
> :(.text+0xa6b4d4): undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN'
> :(.text+0xa6b4f0): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
>
> In a few thousand randconfig builds, I have seen this problem
> a couple of times in this file, but never anywhere else in the
> kernel, so we can try to work around this in the only file
> that shows the behavior, by marking the il_adjust_beacon_interval
> function as noinline, which convinces gcc to use the unoptimized
> do_div() all the time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo
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