lm_sensors and gcc-3.0.3

[Andris Pavenis]

On Thursday 31 January 2002 03:09, Mark D. Studebaker wrote:
> ???
> no-strict-aliasing prevents modules from taking several minutes to load?
> Can you explain why?
> thanks
> mds

Seems that I was wrong. Maybe I somehow suceeded to compile them 
with gcc-2.95.3 for second test. Seems that I'll have to put many
printk() in w83781d.c to see which part of code causes long delay

Andris

>
> Andris Pavenis wrote:
> > Tried to use lm_sensors-2.6.2 (compiled with gcc-3.0.3 release) with
> > kernel-2.4.18-pre7 (also compiled with gcc-3.0.3). It took some minutes
> > to load lm_sensors kernel modules, but sensors semmed to work after that.
> >
> > Adding -fno-strict-aliasing to modules compile options fixed that bad
> > behaviour:
> >
> > --- Makefile~1  Sat Jun  2 06:41:17 2001
> > +++ Makefile    Mon Jan 28 10:32:01 2002
> > @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
> >            -Wcast-align -Wwrite-strings -Wnested-externs -Winline
> >  endif
> >
> > -MODCFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -fomit-frame-pointer
> > +MODCFLAGS := $(CFLAGS) -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -fno-strict-aliasing MODCFLAGS := $(MODCFLAGS) -DEXPORT_SYMTAB
> >  PROGCFLAGS := $(CFLAGS)
> >  ARCFLAGS := $(CFLAGS)
> >
> > Below is what I see in dmesg (simply for info what parts are actually in
> > use)
> >
> > Andris
> >
> > i2c-i810.o version 2.6.2 (20011118)
> > i2c-i810.o: i810/i815 found.
> > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'I810/I815 I2C Adapter' as minor 0
> > i2c-core.o: adapter I810/I815 I2C Adapter registered as adapter 0.
> > i2c-i810.o: I810/I815 I2C bus initialized
> > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'I810/I815 DDC Adapter' as minor 1
> > i2c-core.o: adapter I810/I815 DDC Adapter registered as adapter 1.
> > i2c-i810.o: I810/I815 DDC bus initialized
> > i2c-i801.o version 2.6.2 (20011118)
> > i2c-dev.o: Registered 'SMBus I801 adapter at e800' as minor 2
> > i2c-core.o: adapter SMBus I801 adapter at e800 registered as adapter 2.
> > i2c-i801.o: I801 bus detected and initialized
> > w83781d.o version 2.6.2 (20011118)
> > i2c-core.o: driver W83781D sensor driver registered.
> > i2c-core.o: client [AS99127F chip] registered to adapter [SMBus I801
> > adapter at e800](pos. 0). i2c-core.o: client [AS99127F subclient]
> > registered to adapter [SMBus I801 adapter at e800](pos. 1). i2c-core.o:
> > client [AS99127F subclient] registered to adapter [SMBus I801 adapter at
> > e800](pos. 2).
> >
> > bash-2.05$ sensors
> > as99127f-i2c-2-2d
> > Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at e800
> > Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter
> > VCore 1:   +1.64 V  (min =  +1.56 V, max =  +1.72 V)
> > +3.3V:     +3.45 V  (min =  +3.13 V, max =  +3.45 V)
> > +5V:       +5.04 V  (min =  +4.72 V, max =  +5.24 V)
> > +12V:     +11.36 V  (min = +10.79 V, max = +13.19 V)
> > -12V:     -11.48 V  (min = -10.73 V, max = -13.19 V)
> > -5V:       -4.98 V  (min =  -4.74 V, max =  -5.24 V)
> > fan1:     4115 RPM  (min = 1500 RPM, div = 4)
> > temp1:       +30°C  (limit =  +60°C, hysteresis =  +50°C)
> > temp2:     +35.5°C  (limit =  +67°C, hysteresis =  +60°C)
> > vid:      +1.65 V
> > alarms:   Chassis intrusion detection