[PATCH, RFC] fix UP futex code to not generate invalid streqt instruction

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:25:14PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Compiling kernel 3.0 for UP ARM (ARMv5) I see:
> 
> kernel/futex.c: In function 'fixup_pi_state_owner':
> kernel/futex.c:1549: warning: 'curval' may be used uninitialized in this function
> kernel/futex.c: In function 'handle_futex_death':
> kernel/futex.c:2454: warning: 'nval' may be used uninitialized in this function
> /tmp/ccVDjh0q.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/ccVDjh0q.s:113: Warning: source register same as write-back base

It's actually not a problem - the warning has been around for quite a long
time and I've just been ignoring it having investigated it already.  Why?
The compare-and-exchange is guaranteed to fail at this point without this
instruction even being executed.

> @@ -104,13 +104,14 @@ futex_init:
>         mvnne   r3, #13
>         bne     .L6
>         mvn     r2, #13
>  #APP
>  @ 97 "/tmp/linux-3.0/arch/arm/include/asm/futex.h" 1
>         @futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
> -1:     ldrt    r1, [r3]
>         teq     r1, r3
>         it      eq      @ explicit IT needed for the 2b label
> -2:     streqt  r3, [r3]
>  3:
>         .pushsection __ex_table,"a"
>         .align  3

r3 = 0, so the ldrt causes a data abort, and invokes the fixup, which
will skip over the above.

So it's really not a problem, and this is the only place where that
'optimization' by the compiler will happen.  So no need to fix it.
Really.