[parisc-linux] spinlock align code triggering bug in gcc?

[John David Anglin]

> I'm not yet 100% sure about this one, but it seems like with the new
> self-aligning spinlock code in the kernel, if you build the kernel with
> hppa64-linux-gcc 3.3.3, the kernel generates incorrectly aligned code
> when you bulid with -O2. You see something like this...
> 
> legolas[11:47] linux-2.6% make drivers/block/loop.o
>   CC      drivers/block/loop.o
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:3701: Error: Field not properly aligned [8] (-183).
> {standard input}:3701: Error: Invalid operands

Take a look at the assembler output for the above line.

Dave
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