1. 23 9月, 2017 1 次提交
    • J
      x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang · f5caf621
      Josh Poimboeuf 提交于
      For inline asm statements which have a CALL instruction, we list the
      stack pointer as a constraint to convince GCC to ensure the frame
      pointer is set up first:
      
        static inline void foo()
        {
      	register void *__sp asm(_ASM_SP);
      	asm("call bar" : "+r" (__sp))
        }
      
      Unfortunately, that pattern causes Clang to corrupt the stack pointer.
      
      The fix is easy: convert the stack pointer register variable to a global
      variable.
      
      It should be noted that the end result is different based on the GCC
      version.  With GCC 6.4, this patch has exactly the same result as
      before:
      
      	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
       before	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940
       after	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940
      
      With GCC 7.2, however, GCC's behavior has changed.  It now changes its
      behavior based on the conversion of the register variable to a global.
      That somehow convinces it to *always* set up the frame pointer before
      inserting *any* inline asm.  (Therefore, listing the variable as an
      output constraint is a no-op and is no longer necessary.)  It's a bit
      overkill, but the performance impact should be negligible.  And in fact,
      there's a nice improvement with frame pointers disabled:
      
      	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
       before	9796316		9468236		9076191		8790305
       after	9796957		9464267		9076381		8785949
      
      So in summary, while listing the stack pointer as an output constraint
      is no longer necessary for newer versions of GCC, it's still needed for
      older versions.
      Suggested-by: NAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
      Reported-by: NMatthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
      Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin <miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3db862e970c432ae823cf515c52b54fec8270e0e.1505942196.git.jpoimboe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      f5caf621
  2. 18 9月, 2017 4 次提交
  3. 15 9月, 2017 14 次提交
  4. 14 9月, 2017 15 次提交
  5. 13 9月, 2017 6 次提交