Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 fails to compile with gcc 4.2

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>]

On Sunday, 12. November 2006 14:43, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 'sel' is a variable, so gcc can't provide it as an immediate operand.
> Specifying it as "rm" instead of "g" would have been better, but can't
> have any real influence.

Specifying it as "rm" instead of "g" does fix it -- patch attached.

> Well, for the code you posted in in the gcc bug, it probaby generated
> something like
>
>     mov $0, %fs
>
> which is indeed invalid assembly.  But the kvm miscompile is something
> else (running out of registers or something like that).

What am I overlooking? The code is the exact same (except I replaced "u16" 
with "unsigned short" to avoid the #include), and produces the exact same 
error message, and the fix is the same ("g" -> "rm").

--- linux-2.6.18/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c.ark	2006-11-12 14:40:09.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c	2006-11-12 14:44:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -150,12 +150,12 @@
 
 static void load_fs(u16 sel)
 {
-	asm ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "g"(sel));
+	asm ("mov %0, %%fs" : : "rm"(sel));
 }
 
 static void load_gs(u16 sel)
 {
-	asm ("mov %0, %%gs" : : "g"(sel));
+	asm ("mov %0, %%gs" : : "rm"(sel));
 }
 
 #ifndef load_ldt