i386: work around miscompilation of alternatives code

A recent change makes my Dell 1501 hang on boot.  It's an AMD MK-36.  I use
an x86_64 kernel.  It is 100% reproducible.

I debugged this problem a bit and my compiler[1]interprets the =A constraint
as %rax instead of %edx:%eax on x86_64 which causes the problem.  The appended
patch provides a workaround for this and fixed the hang on my machine.

[1] gcc version 4.1.3 20070429 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-5)

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: "Joerg Roedel" <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h b/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h
index a09fe85c268e..a09427640764 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/alternative.h
@@ -103,6 +103,12 @@ static inline void alternatives_smp_switch(int smp) {}
                       ".previous" : output : [feat] "i" (feature), ##input)
 
 /*
+ * use this macro(s) if you need more than one output parameter
+ * in alternative_io
+ */
+#define ASM_OUTPUT2(a, b) a, b
+
+/*
  * Alternative inline assembly for SMP.
  *
  * The LOCK_PREFIX macro defined here replaces the LOCK and