Skip to content

L
Linux Imx

FengXiao2002 / Linux Imx

通知 8
Star 0
Fork 0
L
Linux Imx

体验新版 GitCode，发现更多精彩内容 >>

切换分支/标签
  1. 14 12月, 2006 2 次提交
    • R
      [ARM] Provide a method to alter the control register · 47fd7052
      由 Russell King 提交于 
      i.MX needs to tweak the control register to support CPU frequency
scaling.  Rather than have folk blindly try and change the control
register by writing to it and then wondering why it doesn't work,
provide a method (which is safe for UP only, and therefore only
available for UP) to achieve this.
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      47fd7052
    • N
      [ARM] 4016/1: prefetch macro is wrong wrt gcc's "delete-null-pointer-checks" · 02828845
      由 Nicolas Pitre 提交于 
       optimization

The gcc manual says:

|`-fdelete-null-pointer-checks'
|     Use global dataflow analysis to identify and eliminate useless
|     checks for null pointers.  The compiler assumes that dereferencing
|     a null pointer would have halted the program.  If a pointer is
|     checked after it has already been dereferenced, it cannot be null.
|     Enabled at levels `-O2', `-O3', `-Os'.

Now the problem can be seen with this test case:

#include <linux/prefetch.h>
extern void bar(char *x);
void foo(char *x)
{
	prefetch(x);
	if (x)
		bar(x);
}

Because the constraint to the inline asm used in the prefetch() macro is
a memory operand, gcc assumes that the asm code does dereference the
pointer and the delete-null-pointer-checks optimization kicks in.
Inspection of generated assembly for the above example shows that bar()
is indeed called unconditionally without any test on the value of x.

Of course in the prefetch case there is no real dereference and it
cannot be assumed that a null pointer would have been caught at that
point. This causes kernel oopses with constructs like
hlist_for_each_entry() where the list's 'next' content is prefetched
before the pointer is tested against NULL, and only when gcc feels like
applying this optimization which doesn't happen all the time with more
complex code.

It appears that the way to prevent delete-null-pointer-checks
optimization to occur in this case is to make prefetch() into a static
inline function instead of a macro. At least this is what is done on
x86_64 where a similar inline asm memory operand is used (I presume they
would have seen the same problem if it didn't work) and resulting code
for the above example confirms that.

An alternative would consist of replacing the memory operand by a
register operand containing the pointer, and use the addressing mode
explicitly in the asm template. But that would be less optimal than an
offsettable memory reference.
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
      02828845
  3. 13 12月, 2006 6 次提交
  5. 12 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 10 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 09 12月, 2006 3 次提交
  11. 08 12月, 2006 27 次提交