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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
index f1a6244d7d93..c0ed3d9c3b22 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
/*
* Undefined/reserved opcodes, conditional jump, Opcode Extension
* Groups, and some special opcodes can not boost.
+ * This is volatile to keep gcc from statically optimizing it out, as
+ * variable_test_bit makes gcc think only *(unsigned long*) is used.
*/
-static const u32 twobyte_is_boostable[256 / 32] = {
+static volatile const u32 twobyte_is_boostable[256 / 32] = {
/* 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f */
/* ---------------------------------------------- */
W(0x00, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | /* 00 */
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