GCC 12 miscompilation of volatile asm (was: Re: [PATCH] arm64/io: Remind compiler that there is a memory side effect)

[Jeremy Linton]

Hi,


On 4/11/22 05:31, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 01:51:30PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> [adding kernel folk who work on asm stuff]
>>
>> As a heads-up, GCC 12 (not yet released) appears to erroneously optimize away
>> calls to functions with volatile asm. Szabolcs has raised an issue on the GCC
>> bugzilla:
>>
>>    https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105160
>>
>> ... which is a P1 release blocker, and is currently being investigated.
> 
> Jan Hubicka fixed this in GCC commit:
> 
>    aabb9a261ef060cf ("Propagate nondeterministic and side_effects flags in modref summary after inlining")
> 
> ... and all my local tests look good with that applied.
> 
> Compiler explorer's trunk build now has that fix, so the examples from before
> now look good:
> 
>    aarch64: https://godbolt.org/z/vMczqjYvs
> 
>    x86_64: https://godbolt.org/z/cveff9hq5
> 
> Jeremy, now that the real issue has been identified and fixed, I assume you'll
> send a revert for commit:
> 
>    8d3ea3d402db94b6 ("net: bcmgenet: Use stronger register read/writes to assure ordering")
> 
> ... ?

Yes, that's the plan.

Thanks,