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    tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer · b33c8ff4
    Arnd Bergmann authored
    In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several
    components:
    
    * gcc-4.9 through at least 5.3
    * CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL enabling -fprofile-arcs for all files
    * CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES overriding every if()
    * The optimized implementation of do_div() that tries to
      replace a library call with an division by multiplication
    * code in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c doing
    
            u32 adc_clock = 450560; /* 45.056 MHz */
            if (state->config.adc_clock)
                    adc_clock = state->config.adc_clock;
            do_div(value, adc_clock);
    
    In this case, gcc fails to determine whether the divisor
    in do_div() is __builtin_constant_p(). In particular, it
    concludes that __builtin_constant_p(adc_clock) is false, while
    __builtin_constant_p(!!adc_clock) is true.
    
    That in turn throws off the logic in do_div() that also uses
    __builtin_constant_p(), and instead of picking either the
    constant- optimized division, and the code in ilog2() that uses
    __builtin_constant_p() to figure out whether it knows the answer at
    compile time. The result is a link error from failing to find
    multiple symbols that should never have been called based on
    the __builtin_constant_p():
    
    dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN'
    dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
    ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined!
    ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined!
    
    This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check
    whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather
    than checking whether it is actually a constant.
    
    I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds
    on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455312410-1058841-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de
    
    
    
    Acked-by: default avatarNicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
    Fixes: ab3c9c68
    
     ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.30+
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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