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x86: Use inline assembler instead of global register variable to get sp

LTO in gcc 4.6/47. has trouble with global register variables. They were used
to read the stack pointer. Use a simple inline assembler statement with
a mov instead.

This also helps LLVM/clang, which does not support global register
variables.

[ hpa: Ideally this should become a builtin in both gcc and clang. ]

v2: More general asm constraint. Fix description (Jan Beulich)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382458079-24450-6-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Andi Kleen 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 5 3
      arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h

+ 5 - 3
arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h

@@ -163,9 +163,11 @@ struct thread_info {
  */
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
-
-/* how to get the current stack pointer from C */
-register unsigned long current_stack_pointer asm("esp") __used;
+#define current_stack_pointer ({		\
+	unsigned long sp;			\
+	asm("mov %%esp,%0" : "=g" (sp));	\
+	sp;					\
+})
 
 /* how to get the thread information struct from C */
 static inline struct thread_info *current_thread_info(void)