zfsonlinux/zfs — pull request #2051 by behlendorf (2014-01-14 18:54:47+00:00)
Title: Disable GCCs aggressive loop optimization

GCC >+ 4.8's aggressive loop optimization breaks some of the iterators
over the dn_blkptr[] pseudo-array in dnode_phys. Since dn_blkptr[] is
defined as a single-element array, GCC believes an iterator can only
access index 0 and will unroll the loop into a single iteration.

One way to resolve the issue would be to cast the array to a pointer
and fix all the iterators that might break. The only loop where it
is known to cause a problem is this loop in dmu_objset_write_ready():

for (i = 0; i < dnp->dn_nblkptr; i++)
bp->blk_fill += dnp->dn_blkptr[i].blk_fill;

In the common case where dn_nblkptr is 3, the loop is only executed a
single time and "i" is equal to 1 following the loop.

The specific breakage caused by this problem is that the blk_fill of
root block pointers wouldn't be set properly when more than one blkptr
is in use (when no indrect blocks are needed).

The simple reproducing sequence is:

zpool create tank /tank.img
zdb -ddddd tank 0

Notice that "fill=31", however, there are two L0 indirect blocks with
"F=31" and "F=5". The fill count should be 36 rather than 35. This
problem causes an assert to be hit in a simple "zdb tank" when built
with --enable-debug.

However, this approach was not taken because we need to be absolutely
sure we catch all instances of this unwanted optimization. Therefore,
the build system have been updated to detect if GCC supports the
aggressive loop optimization. If it does the optimization will be
explicitly disabled using the -fno-aggressive loop-optimization option.

Original-fix-by: Tim Chase
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf
Issue #2010