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Huacai Chen
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From GCC commit 3f13154553f8546a ("df-scan: remove ad-hoc handling of
global regs in asms"), global registers will no longer be forced to add
to the def-use chain. Then current_thread_info(), current_stack_pointer
and __my_cpu_offset may be lifted out of the loop because they are no
longer treated as "volatile variables".
This optimization is still correct for the current_thread_info() and
current_stack_pointer usages because they are associated to a thread.
However it is wrong for __my_cpu_offset because it is associated to a
CPU rather than a thread: if the thread migrates to a different CPU in
the loop, __my_cpu_offset should be changed.
Change __my_cpu_offset definition to treat it as a "volatile variable",
in order to avoid such a mis-optimization.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Xiaotian Wu <wuxiaotian@loongson.cn>
Reported-by: Miao Wang <shankerwangmiao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xing Li <lixing@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hongchen Zhang <zhanghongchen@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Rui Wang <wangrui@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
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