linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: write_sysreg asm illegal for aarch32

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Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2017 10:08:10 +0000
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
To:     Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
Cc:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoffer Dall <cdall@...aro.org>,
        Stefan Traby <stefan@...lo-penguin.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: write_sysreg asm illegal for aarch32

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 01:32:50PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> On 11/01/2017 11:16 AM, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> > On 11/01/2017 10:56 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 10:49:00AM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> > > > On 11/01/2017 10:14 AM, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > > > > On 01/11/17 16:58, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
> > > > > > Cross compiling to aarch32 (for vdso32) using clang correctly
> > > > > > identifies that (the unused) write_sysreg inline asm directive is
> > > > > > illegal in that architectural context:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h: error: invalid
> > > > > > input constraint 'rZ' in asm
> > > > > >           write_sysreg(cntkctl, cntkctl_el1);
> > > > > >           ^
> > > > > > arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h: note: expanded from
> > > > > > macro 'write_sysreg'
> > > > > >                        : : "rZ" (__val));
> > > > > >                            ^
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > GCC normally checks for correctness everywhere. But uniquely for
> > > > > > unused asm, will optimize out and suppress the error report.
> > > > > It sounds more like some paths are wrong in the compat vDSO build if
> > > > > it's pulling in this header in the first place - nothing in
> > > > > this file is
> > > > > relevant to AArch32.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Robin.
> > > > > 
> > > > And yet, when you CROSS_COMPILE_ARM32 a vdso32, you have no
> > > > choice but to
> > > > utilize the arm64 headers since they contain all the relevant kernel
> > > > structures and environment.
> > > This itself is the underlying issue.
> > > 
> > > When building the compat VDSO, we must ensure that we only include
> > > headers that make sense for 32-bit arm.
> > > 
> > > If the build system can't do that today, we should rework it so that it
> > > can. Anything else cannot be a complete fix.

> > Ok, will attack it and see just how bad the scale is...

> Scoped, not as bad as I thought, but there is some open-coded evilness to
> fix:
> 
> 1) linux/jiffies.h can not be included, replace with open coding:

[...]

> 2) linux/hrtimer.h can not be included, replace with open coding (must have
> above to work):

[...]

> 3) asm/processor.h can not be included, replace with open coding:

[...]

> 4) linux/time.h can not be included, replace with open coding:

[...]

Evidently I was not sufficiently clear.

I don't think that we should try to bodge the #include directives to try
to avoid including 64-bit headers. The above changes might work today,
but they're *extremely* fragile.

When I said that we should rework the build system above, I mean we
should rework the Makefile logic to pass the 32-bit include paths into
the compat vdso. That way, we can include the usual set of headers, as
we'll pick up the 32-bit headers.

We might have to have separate native/compat vdso data pages to make
sure that the types align, but that's not the end of the world...

Thanks,
Mark.