RE: [PATCH] x86: work around clang IAS bug referencing __force_order

[David Laight]

From: Arvind Sankar
> Sent: 22 August 2020 22:17
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> Assuming we don't want to risk removing force_order, I'd suggest
> - make it an input/output operand, so it enforces ordering fully.
> - either restrict it to gcc < 8, or just provide a proper definition in
>   some file (maybe arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c)?

Is it possible to replace __force_order with a symbol that the
linker scripts defines?
Or just define __force_order in the linker script to some
'random' constant (eg 0).

ISTM that adding "m"(__force_order) to asm volatile can do no harm.
Especially for accesses to CRn and MSRn (etc) which might have obscure
side effects.

	David

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