Re: cmpxchg.h:245:2: error: âasmâ operand has impossible constraints

From: Juergen Gross
Date: Thu Sep 06 2018 - 09:54:12 EST


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.Hey Meelis,

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018, Meelis Roos wrote:

> While trying to compile v4.18-13105-gaba16dc5cf93 with gcc 5.3.1 on a
> 32-bit x86 configured for AMD K6
> CC mm/slub.o
> In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:8:0,
> from ./include/linux/atomic.h:7,
> from ./arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h:54,
> from ./include/linux/thread_info.h:38,
> from ./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:7,
> from ./include/linux/preempt.h:81,
> from ./include/linux/spinlock.h:51,
> from ./include/linux/mmzone.h:8,
> from ./include/linux/gfp.h:6,
> from ./include/linux/mm.h:10,
> from mm/slub.c:13:
> mm/slub.c: In function â__slab_freeâ:
> ./arch/x86/include/asm/cmpxchg.h:245:2: error: âasmâ operand has
impossible constraints
> asm volatile(pfx "cmpxchg%c4b %2; sete %0" \

Could you give the attched patch a try? I've been hit by this issue
via kbuild robot complaining about one of my patches which didn't
touch the asm stuff above.

I suspect the "=a" contraint of the outputs and "a" of the inputs
are the culprit. You could save me from having to search through
all the debian repos for a gcc showing that issue...


Juergen