[ARM] 5196/1: fix inline asm constraints for preload

With gcc 4.3 and later, a pointer that has already been dereferenced is
assumed not to be null since it should have caused a segmentation fault
otherwise, hence any subsequent test against NULL is optimized away.

Current inline asm constraint used in the implementation of prefetch()
makes gcc believe that the pointer is dereferenced even though the PLD
instruction does not load any data and does not cause a segmentation
fault on null pointers, which causes all sorts of interesting results
when reaching the end of a linked lists for example.

Let's use a better constraint to properly represent the actual usage of
the pointer value.

Problem reported by Chris Steel.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
index b01d5e7e3d5a..517a4d6ffc74 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -112,9 +112,9 @@ extern int kernel_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, unsigned long flags);
 static inline void prefetch(const void *ptr)
 {
         __asm__ __volatile__(
-                "pld\t%0"
+                "pld\t%a0"
                 :
-                : "o" (*(char *)ptr)
+                : "p" (ptr)
                 : "cc");
 }