Re: Please revert 709f744 (x86: bitops asm constraint fixes)

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 06.05.08 14:01 >>>
> >Jan, any ideas what's wrong with your commit?
> 
> No, I have no idea at all (apart from considering mis-compilation as you
> did. The best path I could suggest is to try and nail this down to one
> (or more, if that happens to be the case) function(s) having been
> changed - this is mostly because part of the changes are really
> tightening things (which therefore I would think ought to be kept),
> while the change to __test_and_change_bit() really weakens things
> (which I nevertheless continue to think is correct and consistent with
> other functions, but which then would be the primary suspect). Of
> course, since no-one else has seen this so far, this would need to be
> done by Simon.
> Once down to a single (hopefully) function, it might be possible to just
> statically compare the two vmlinux-es to perhaps spot whether this
> indeed is mis-compilation.

Jan,

can you please provide a step by step conversion of those constraints
on top of the revert. I'm a bit wary about this whole business as such
constraint problems might hit us elsewhere as well.

Thanks,
	tglx