linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] arc: Add const attribute support for mathematical ARC builtins

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Message-ID: <E828A2FA-A5DA-472E-9C22-C04AF91D13A0@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 14:09:51 +0000
From: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@...cle.com>
To: Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, "claziss@...il.com" <claziss@...il.com>
CC: Claudiu Zissulescu <claziss@...il.com>,
        "gcc-patches@....gnu.org"
	<gcc-patches@....gnu.org>,
        "linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arc: Add const attribute support for mathematical ARC
 builtins



> On Oct 7, 2025, at 23:29, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2025 at 09:02:21PM +0000, Qing Zhao wrote:
>> Hi, Kees,
>> 
>> I took a look at the patch today. 
>> Overall, I think the patch is good and should work well.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> My major questions are:
>> 
>> 1. Are the five functions in the current list the only functions in __builtin_arc_*** that 
>> have const attribute?  
> 
> They are the only ones I can safely assert are const attribute without
> doing additional work. I'm sure there are more, but I didn't feel
> comfortable marking others.
> 
>> 2. In addition to “const” attribute, are there any other important attributes should be added for
>> the arc builtins to enable more optimizations?
> 
> Again, I'm not sure. But my goal here is to make it possible to add
> these going forward if people find stuff to add. Before this patch it
> wasn't possible at all -- the infrastructure to do so was missing, so
> that's what I wanted to add: the infrastructure and the first user. :)

Yeah, understood. And sounds reasonable to me.

Does Claudiu have more concern and comments on this patch?

thanks.

Qing


> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook