[PATCH] mm/migrate: Mark unmap_and_move() "noinline" to avoid ICE in gcc 4.7.3 (was: Re: Possible regression in gcc 4.7.3 next-20150323 due to "ARM, arm64: kvm: get rid of the bounce page")

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Apr 01 2015 - 05:37:51 EST


Hi Kevin,

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Nope, that branch is already part of linux-next, and linux-next still
> fails to compile for 20+ defconfigs[1]
>
> > Could you elaborate on the issue please? What is the error you are
> > getting, and can you confirm that is is caused by ld choking on the
> > linker script? If not, this is another error than the one we have been
> > trying to fix
>
> It's definitely not linker script related.
>
> Using "arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.3-12ubuntu1) 4.7.3",
> here's the error when building for multi_v7_defconfig (full log
> available[2]):
>
> ../mm/migrate.c: In function 'migrate_pages':
> ../mm/migrate.c:1148:1: internal compiler error: in push_minipool_fix, at config/arm/arm.c:13101
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs> for instructions.
> Preprocessed source stored into /tmp/ccO1Nz1m.out file, please attach
> this to your bugreport.
> make[2]: *** [mm/migrate.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Target `__build' not remade because of errors.
> make[1]: *** [mm] Error 2
>
> build bisect points to commit 21f992084aeb[3], but that doesn't revert
> cleanly so I haven't got any further than that yet.

I installed gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi (4:4.7.2-1 from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) and could
reproduce the ICE. I came up with the workaround below.
Does this work for you?