On 11/5/18 12:36 PM, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On 11/5/18 1:20 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
>> On 11/1/18 4:07 PM, Peter Bergner wrote:
>>> On 11/1/18 1:50 PM, Renlin Li wrote:
>>>> Is there any update on this issues?
>>>> arm-none-linux-gnueabihf native toolchain has been mis-compiled for a 
>>>> while.
>>>
>>> From the analysis I've done, my commit is just exposing latent issues
>>> in LRA.  Can you try the patch I submitted here to see if it helps?
>>>
>>>   https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-10/msg01757.html
>>>
>>> It survives on powerpc64le-linux, x86_64-linux and s390x-linux.
>>> Jeff threw it on his testers and said he saw an arm issue and was
>>> trying to come up with a test case for me to debug.
>> So I don't think the ARM issues are related to your patch, they may have
>> been related the combiner changes that went in around the same time.
>>
>> At this point your patch appears to be DTRT across the board.  The only
>> fallout is the bogus s390 asm it caught in the kernel.
> 
> Cool.  I will note that I contacted the s390 kernel guys and gave them a
> fix to their broken constraints in that asm and they are going to fix it.
Sounds good.  I've got a hack in my tester to "fix" that bogus asm until
the kernel folks do it right.


> 
> Is the above an approval to commit the patch mentioned above or do you
> still want to wait until the ARM issues are fully resolved?
I think knowing the patch addresses all the known issues related to the
earlier IRA/LRA change unblocks the review step.  I don't think we need
to wait for the other ARM issues to be resolved -- they seem to be
unrelated to the IRA/LRA changes.

jeff

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