[PATCH 1/3] hvc_dcc: Fix bad code generation by marking assembly volatile

[Tony Lindgren]

* Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> [101220 13:38]:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Without marking the asm __dcc_getstatus() volatile my compiler
> > decides it can cache the value of __ret in a register and then
> > check the value of it continually in hvc_dcc_put_chars() (I had
> > to replace get_wait/put_wait with 1 and fixup the branch
> > otherwise my disassembler barfed on __dcc_(get|put)char).
> > 
> > 00000000 <hvc_dcc_put_chars>:
> >    0:   ee103e11        mrc     14, 0, r3, cr0, cr1, {0}
> >    4:   e3a0c000        mov     ip, #0  ; 0x0
> >    8:   e2033202        and     r3, r3, #536870912      ; 0x20000000
> >    c:   ea000006        b       2c <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x2c>
> >   10:   e3530000        cmp     r3, #0  ; 0x0
> >   14:   1afffffd        bne     10 <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x10>
> >   18:   e7d1000c        ldrb    r0, [r1, ip]
> >   1c:   ee10fe11        mrc     14, 0, pc, cr0, cr1, {0}
> >   20:   2afffffd        bcs     1c <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x1c>
> >   24:   ee000e15        mcr     14, 0, r0, cr0, cr5, {0}
> >   28:   e28cc001        add     ip, ip, #1      ; 0x1
> >   2c:   e15c0002        cmp     ip, r2
> >   30:   bafffff6        blt     10 <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x10>
> >   34:   e1a00002        mov     r0, r2
> >   38:   e12fff1e        bx      lr
> > 
> > As you can see, the value of the mrc is checked against
> > DCC_STATUS_TX (bit 29) and then stored in r3 for later use.
> > Marking the asm volatile produces the following:
> > 
> > 00000000 <hvc_dcc_put_chars>:
> >    0:   e3a03000        mov     r3, #0  ; 0x0
> >    4:   ea000007        b       28 <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x28>
> >    8:   ee100e11        mrc     14, 0, r0, cr0, cr1, {0}
> >    c:   e3100202        tst     r0, #536870912  ; 0x20000000
> >   10:   1afffffc        bne     8 <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x8>
> >   14:   e7d10003        ldrb    r0, [r1, r3]
> >   18:   ee10fe11        mrc     14, 0, pc, cr0, cr1, {0}
> >   1c:   2afffffd        bcs     18 <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x18>
> >   20:   ee000e15        mcr     14, 0, r0, cr0, cr5, {0}
> >   24:   e2833001        add     r3, r3, #1      ; 0x1
> >   28:   e1530002        cmp     r3, r2
> >   2c:   bafffff5        blt     8 <hvc_dcc_put_chars+0x8>
> >   30:   e1a00002        mov     r0, r2
> >   34:   e12fff1e        bx      lr
> > 
> > which looks better and actually works. Mark all the inline
> > assembly in this file as volatile since we don't want the
> > compiler to optimize away these statements or move them around
> > in any way.
> > 
> > Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>
> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>
> > Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker at codeaurora.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd at codeaurora.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com>