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tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 21:26:42 +0000 (22:26 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:01:16 +0000 (12:01 -0800)
commit2fa82bbbc73a7d8716e3f7aba6b2b5c84147a2fc
tree33bf2bab8360b83c4d2dc13512d9ca3febee2c07
parent6fa74f50e357b0d87fad34a4b7ccbc2beb42b859
tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer

commit b33c8ff4431a343561e2319f17c14286f2aa52e2 upstream.

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: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/compiler.h