From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: "Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston)" <Brian.B@hp.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org, discuss@x86-64.org, akpm@osdl.org,
"Altobelli, David" <david.altobelli@hp.com>,
binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [discuss] RE: [PATCH] [1/2] x86_64: Pass -32 to the assembler when compiling the 32bit vsyscall pages
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060421145001.GA13830@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6095103C4F0ACD4FAE3522E0F27ADF42022CEE33@cceexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net>
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:25:33AM -0500, Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston) wrote:
> The credit for this should actually go to Dave Altobelli, not myself.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ak@suse.de [mailto:ak@suse.de]
> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 2:42 AM
> To: torvalds@osdl.org
> Cc: discuss@x86-64.org; akpm@osdl.org; Baker, Brian (ISS - Houston)
> Subject: [PATCH] [1/2] x86_64: Pass -32 to the assembler when compiling
> the 32bit vsyscall pages
>
>
> This quietens warnings and actually fixes a bug. The unwind tables would
> come out wrong without -32, causing pthread cancellation during them
> to crash in the gcc runtime.
>
> The problem seems to only happen with newer binutils
> (it doesn't happen with 2.16.91.0.2 but happens wit 2.16.91.0.5)
If you believe it is true, please open a bug report at
http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/
>
> Thanks to Brian Baker @ HP for test case and initial analysis.
>
> Cc: brian.b@hp.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
>
> ---
> arch/x86_64/ia32/Makefile | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux/arch/x86_64/ia32/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/Makefile
> +++ linux/arch/x86_64/ia32/Makefile
> @@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ $(obj)/vsyscall-sysenter.so $(obj)/vsysc
> $(obj)/vsyscall-%.so: $(src)/vsyscall.lds $(obj)/vsyscall-%.o FORCE
> $(call if_changed,syscall)
>
> -AFLAGS_vsyscall-sysenter.o = -m32
> -AFLAGS_vsyscall-syscall.o = -m32
> +AFLAGS_vsyscall-sysenter.o = -m32 -Wa,-32
> +AFLAGS_vsyscall-syscall.o = -m32 -Wa,-32
I can't reproduce it with binutils 2.16.91.0.5. Unless you have a bad
gcc driver, -m32 will pass --32 to assembler, which is the same as -32.
H.J.
next parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-21 14:50 UTC|newest]
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2006-04-21 23:22 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2006-04-23 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-24 10:13 ` H. J. Lu
2006-04-24 10:33 ` Andi Kleen
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