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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:27:27 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        Brandon Bergren <bdragon@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: head -r365932 on PowerMac G5 (2 dual-core sockets): Crashes before login prompt if powerd is enabled in /etc/rc.conf
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On 2020-Sep-22, at 12:45, Brandon Bergren <bdragon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 2:35 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>> 
>> Seems to target 32 bit powerpc but the context I'm reporting is
>> for powerpc64 overall. May be the mis-compiles are not limited
>> to 32-bit powerpc variants?
> 
> DOH! You're right, 
> 
> Try a build with _MINUS_O forced to -O2 and see if that fixes things.
> 
> FWIW, there is a differential to change the default across the board @ https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26471 because the whole "inlines are not inlining" problem affects everything.
> 
> The change boils down to LLVM 11 changing their default of what -O "means" to be -O1 instead of -O2, which breaks a bunch of kernel assumptions regarding inlining.
> 

On the 2 dual-core socket G5:

# sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq
dev.cpu.0.freq: 2500

based on using:

# svnlite diff /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk
Index: /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk
===================================================================
--- /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk	(revision 365932)
+++ /usr/src/sys/conf/kern.pre.mk	(working copy)
@@ -51,15 +51,7 @@
 SIZE?=		size
 
 .if defined(DEBUG)
-.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "powerpc" || ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "powerpcspe"
-# Work around clang 11 miscompile on 32 bit powerpc.
-_MINUS_O=	-O2
-.else
-_MINUS_O=	-O
-.endif
 CTFFLAGS+=	-g
-.else
-_MINUS_O=	-O2
 .endif
 .if ${MACHINE_CPUARCH} == "amd64"
 .if ${COMPILER_TYPE} == "clang"
@@ -68,7 +60,7 @@
 COPTFLAGS?=-O2 -frename-registers -pipe
 .endif
 .else
-COPTFLAGS?=${_MINUS_O} -pipe
+COPTFLAGS?=-O2 -pipe
 .endif
 .if !empty(COPTFLAGS:M-O[23s]) && empty(COPTFLAGS:M-fno-strict-aliasing)
 COPTFLAGS+= -fno-strict-aliasing


[I doubt that this had anything to do with the extremely
early 2-socket G4 boot failure, given what you had for
"powerpc": it should have been -O2 already.]


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