Re: [PATCH][2.6] constant_test_bit doesn't like my gcc

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  cpu_has_foo and friends don't work at all with my gcc 3.2.2-5 and i'm 
>  branching off into all sorts of tests (which is another story...). i also 
>  took the liberty of removing the const volatile...

The volatile is rather important.


static inline int constant_test_bit(int nr, const unsigned long *addr)
{
        return ((1UL << (nr & 31)) & (((const unsigned long *) addr)[nr >> 5])) != 0;
}

foo(unsigned long *p)
{
        while (constant_test_bit(0, p))
                ;
}


        .file   "a.c"
        .text
        .align 2
        .p2align 2,,3
.globl foo
        .type   foo,@function
foo:
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        movl    8(%ebp), %eax
        testb   $1, (%eax)
        .p2align 2,,3
.L2:
        jne     .L2
        leave
        ret
.Lfe1:
        .size   foo,.Lfe1-foo
        .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)"


See, the little busywait loop doesn't reevaluate the test each time around:
it locks up instead.