[tip:x86/urgent] x86: Use correct byte-sized register constraint in __xchg_op()
From: tip-bot for Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Fri Apr 06 2012 - 12:53:12 EST
Commit-ID: 2ca052a3710fac208eee690faefdeb8bbd4586a1
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/2ca052a3710fac208eee690faefdeb8bbd4586a1
Author: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:15:33 -0700
Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 09:39:39 -0700
x86: Use correct byte-sized register constraint in __xchg_op()
x86-64 can access the low half of any register, but i386 can only do
it with a subset of registers. 'r' causes compilation failures on i386,
but 'q' expresses the constraint properly.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4F7A3315.501@xxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Leigh Scott <leigh123linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Thomas Reitmayr <treitmayr@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> v3.3
---
arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
index b3b7332..bc18d0e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern void __add_wrong_size(void)
switch (sizeof(*(ptr))) { \
case __X86_CASE_B: \
asm volatile (lock #op "b %b0, %1\n" \
- : "+r" (__ret), "+m" (*(ptr)) \
+ : "+q" (__ret), "+m" (*(ptr)) \
: : "memory", "cc"); \
break; \
case __X86_CASE_W: \
--
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