On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 9:29 PM Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 1:25 PM Sudip Mukherjee > <sudipm.mukher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > And the generated assembly still has the memset for "struct prom_args". > > Strange. That smells like a compiler bug to me.
Both gcc-12 and clang gives this error. > > But I can't read powerpc assembly code - it's been too many years, and > even back when I did read it I hated how the register "names" worked. > > Maybe it was never the args array, and it was about the other fields. > Not that that makes any sense either, but it makes more sense than the > compiler turning a series of volatile accesses into a memset. I have also tried adding volatile to all the members of that struct. :( -- Regards Sudip