On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 10:21:01AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 3:11 AM Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au> wrote: > > > > Just one fix, a revert of a commit that was meant to be a minor improvement > > to > > some inline asm, but ended up having no real benefit with GCC and broke > > booting > > 32-bit machines when using Clang. > > Pulled, but whenever there are possible subtle compiler issues I get > nervous, and wonder if the problem was reported to the clang guys? > > In particular, if the kernel change was technically correct, maybe > somebody else comes along in a few years and tries the same, and then > it's another odd "why doesn't this work for person X when it works > just fine for me".. > > Linus
It was. https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/593 https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42762 We're still waiting for input from the PowerPC backend maintainers as that is most likely where this issue originates from. Cheers, Nathan
