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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2017-09-20 16:24:33 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2017-09-23 15:06:20 +0200
commitf5caf621ee357279e759c0911daf6d55c7d36f03 (patch)
tree429270fc4ccb2c9fe7881229640858c53dfca5e2 /tools/objtool/Documentation
parent0d0970eef3b03ef08b19da5bc3044410731cf38f (diff)
x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang
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: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com> Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Josh 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.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt b/tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt
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--- a/tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt
+++ b/tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ they mean, and suggestions for how to fix them.
If it's a GCC-compiled .c file, the error may be because the function
uses an inline asm() statement which has a "call" instruction. An
asm() statement with a call instruction must declare the use of the
- stack pointer in its output operand. For example, on x86_64:
+ stack pointer in its output operand. On x86_64, this means adding
+ the ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT as an output constraint:
- register void *__sp asm("rsp");
- asm volatile("call func" : "+r" (__sp));
+ asm volatile("call func" : ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT);
Otherwise the stack frame may not get created before the call.