Re: [RFC PATCH linus] RISC-V: gp_in_global can be static

[Palmer Dabbelt]

On Sun, 17 May 2020 22:02:27 PDT (-0700), lkp@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Fixes: 52e7c52d2ded ("RISC-V: Stop relying on GCC's register allocator's hueristics")
> Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  process.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
> index 610c11e916068..3b2933839d492 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/process.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
>  #include <asm/switch_to.h>
>  #include <asm/thread_info.h>
>
> -unsigned long gp_in_global __asm__("gp");
> +static unsigned long gp_in_global __asm__("gp");
>
>  extern asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
>  extern asmlinkage void ret_from_kernel_thread(void);

Thanks.  Looks like this is actually a real bug: gp_in_global was supposed to
have the "register" keyword, and missing that appears to cause the __asm__ to
be ignored.