[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.

I think this is a coding problem.

Dave
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