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On Friday 21 April 2006 10:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> you can also try the mutex.bad.s file i attached:
>
> $ as mutex.s.bad
> mutex.s.bad: Assembler messages:
> mutex.s.bad:267: Warning: .space or .fill with negative value, ignored
> mutex.s.bad:355: Warning: .space or .fill with negative value, ignored
> mutex.s.bad:412: Warning: .space or .fill with negative value, ignored
> mutex.s.bad:574: Warning: .space or .fill with negative value, ignored
> mutex.s.bad:627: Warning: .space or .fill with negative value, ignored
Reduced testcase, which still exhibits the bug.
# as mutex.bad_minimal.s
mutex.bad_minimal.s: Assembler messages:
mutex.bad_minimal.s:21: Warning: .space or .fill with negative value, ignored
# as --version | head -1
GNU assembler 2.15.91.0.1 20040527
# cat mutex.bad_minimal.s
661:
662:
.section .smp_altinstructions,"a"
.align 4
.long 661b
.byte 0x68
.byte 662b-661b
.section .smp_altinstr_replacement,"awx"
.fill 662b-661b,1,0x42
.section .sched.text,"ax",@progbits
call _spin_unlock #
661:
2: jle 2b #
662:
.section .smp_altinstructions,"a"
.align 4
.long 661b
.byte 0x68
.byte 662b-661b
.section .smp_altinstr_replacement,"awx"
.fill 662b-661b,1,0x42
--
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