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[PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

In my randconfig tests, I came across a bug that involves several
components:

* gcc-4.9 through at least 5.3
* CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL enabling -fprofile-arcs for all files
* CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES overriding every if()
* The optimized implementation of do_div() that tries to
  replace a library call with an division by multiplication
* code in drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.c doing

        u32 adc_clock = 450560; /* 45.056 MHz */
        if (state->config.adc_clock)
                adc_clock = state->config.adc_clock;
        do_div(value, adc_clock);

In this case, gcc fails to determine whether the divisor
in do_div() is __builtin_constant_p(). In particular, it
concludes that __builtin_constant_p(adc_clock) is false, while
__builtin_constant_p(!!adc_clock) is true.

That in turn throws off the logic in do_div() that also uses
__builtin_constant_p(), and instead of picking either the
constant- optimized division, and the code in ilog2() that uses
__builtin_constant_p() to figure out whether it knows the answer at
compile time. The result is a link error from failing to find
multiple symbols that should never have been called based on
the __builtin_constant_p():

dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `____ilog2_NaN'
dvb-frontends/zl10353.c:138: undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
ERROR: "____ilog2_NaN" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "__aeabi_uldivmod" [drivers/media/dvb-frontends/zl10353.ko] undefined!

This patch avoids the problem by changing __trace_if() to check
whether the condition is known at compile-time to be nonzero, rather
than checking whether it is actually a constant.

I see this one link error in roughly one out of 1600 randconfig builds
on ARM, and the patch fixes all known instances.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455312410-1058841-1-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de

Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Fixes: ab3c9c686e22 ("branch tracer, intel-iommu: fix build with CONFIG_BRANCH_TRACER=y")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.30+
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 include/linux/compiler.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 00b042c49ccd..48f5aab117ae 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
  */
 #define if(cond, ...) __trace_if( (cond , ## __VA_ARGS__) )
 #define __trace_if(cond) \
-	if (__builtin_constant_p((cond)) ? !!(cond) :			\
+	if (__builtin_constant_p(!!(cond)) ? !!(cond) :			\
 	({								\
 		int ______r;						\
 		static struct ftrace_branch_data			\
-- 
2.6.4

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[PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: A couple of fixes Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-16 20:50 +0100
  [PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix freak link error caused by branch tracer Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-16 20:50 +0100
  [PATCH 1/2] tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-16 21:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> - 2016-02-16 21:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-02-16 21:40 +0100

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