----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Henderson" <r...@twiddle.net> > To: "Paolo Bonzini" <pbonz...@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Cc: "peter maydell" <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>, qemu-...@nongnu.org, > f...@redhat.com, "vijay kilari" > <vijay.kil...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 4:53:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Improve buffer_is_zero > > On 08/23/2016 09:38 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > > > > On 24/08/2016 06:30, no-re...@patchew.org wrote: > >> ERROR: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see > >> Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt > >> #44: FILE: util/cutils.c:289: > >> + __asm volatile("vmovdqu -0x80(%1),%0\n\t" > > > > Other errors can be ignored, but please use __asm__ __volatile__ here or > > just __asm__ (I don't think volatile is useful). > > I had to add volatile to keep the prefetch in advance of the loop. > I suppose I could just add the prefetch to the asm block...
Probably easiest, or maybe add barrier() too. Paolo