Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core

To pick up fixes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index e512f5505dad..b8fe0c23cfff 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -80,11 +80,25 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
 
 /* Optimization barrier */
 #ifndef barrier
-# define barrier() __memory_barrier()
+/* The "volatile" is due to gcc bugs */
+# define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")
 #endif
 
 #ifndef barrier_data
-# define barrier_data(ptr) barrier()
+/*
+ * This version is i.e. to prevent dead stores elimination on @ptr
+ * where gcc and llvm may behave differently when otherwise using
+ * normal barrier(): while gcc behavior gets along with a normal
+ * barrier(), llvm needs an explicit input variable to be assumed
+ * clobbered. The issue is as follows: while the inline asm might
+ * access any memory it wants, the compiler could have fit all of
+ * @ptr into memory registers instead, and since @ptr never escaped
+ * from that, it proved that the inline asm wasn't touching any of
+ * it. This version works well with both compilers, i.e. we're telling
+ * the compiler that the inline asm absolutely may see the contents
+ * of @ptr. See also: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15495
+ */
+# define barrier_data(ptr) __asm__ __volatile__("": :"r"(ptr) :"memory")
 #endif
 
 /* workaround for GCC PR82365 if needed */