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Message-ID: <55CB8DAD.6090508@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 14:17:17 -0400
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
Xen Devel <Xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the xen-tip tree with the tip tree
On 08/12/2015 01:46 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 07:21:05PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:27:38AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>>
>>> Incidentally, 11276d53 ("locking/static_keys: Add a new static_key
>>> interface") breaks old-ish compilers (gcc version 4.4.4 20100503 (Red Hat
>>> 4.4.4-2) (GCC)):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> CC arch/x86/kernel/nmi.o
>>> In file included from
>>> /home/build/linux-boris/include/linux/jump_label.h:109,
>>> from
>>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/spinlock.h:5,
>>> from /home/build/linux-boris/include/linux/spinlock.h:88,
>>> from /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c:14:
>>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h: In function
>>> ‘nmi_handle’:
>>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:21: warning: asm
>>> operand 0 probably doesn’t match constraints
>>> /home/build/linux-boris/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:21: error:
>>> impossible constraint in ‘asm’
>>> make[3]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/nmi.o] Error 1
>>> make[2]: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
>>> make[1]: *** [arch/x86] Error 2
>> Ugh bugger.
>>
>> I bet its that: &((char *)key)[branch] business, an earlier variant
>> thereof tripped up more recent GCCs too.
>>
>> So its an __always_inline function, and both argument are always compile
>> time constants, @key is the address of an object in static storage (a
>> global) and @branch is a simple 0/1 at the call site.
>>
>> Now we wish to compute (unsigned long)key + branch at compile/link time
>> to feed to the assembler as an immediate, which should be possible,
>> given its all 'constants'.
>>
>> It just appears GCC is having a hard time with this.
>>
>> Let me see if I have a sufficiently old GCC around to play with.
> Could you feed the below to your compiler? Its a bit cumbersome, but
> its the next best I could come up with...
No, it produces the same error. This is Fedora 13, btw, uses gcc 4.4.4.
-boris
>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
> index 28d7a857f9d1..76c769ae4200 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h
> @@ -16,15 +16,30 @@
> # define STATIC_KEY_INIT_NOP GENERIC_NOP5_ATOMIC
> #endif
>
> +struct foo {
> + u8 zero;
> + u8 one;
> +};
> +
> static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key *key, bool branch)
> {
> - asm_volatile_goto("1:"
> - ".byte " __stringify(STATIC_KEY_INIT_NOP) "\n\t"
> - ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
> - _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> - _ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
> - ".popsection \n\t"
> - : : "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);
> + if (!branch) {
> + asm_volatile_goto("1:"
> + ".byte " __stringify(STATIC_KEY_INIT_NOP) "\n\t"
> + ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
> + _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> + _ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
> + ".popsection \n\t"
> + : : "i" (&((struct foo *)key)->zero) : : l_yes);
> + } else {
> + asm_volatile_goto("1:"
> + ".byte " __stringify(STATIC_KEY_INIT_NOP) "\n\t"
> + ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
> + _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> + _ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
> + ".popsection \n\t"
> + : : "i" (&((struct foo *)key)->one) : : l_yes);
> + }
>
> return false;
> l_yes:
> @@ -33,14 +48,25 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key *key, bool bran
>
> static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key *key, bool branch)
> {
> - asm_volatile_goto("1:"
> - ".byte 0xe9\n\t .long %l[l_yes] - 2f\n\t"
> - "2:\n\t"
> - ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
> - _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> - _ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
> - ".popsection \n\t"
> - : : "i" (&((char *)key)[branch]) : : l_yes);
> + if (!branch) {
> + asm_volatile_goto("1:"
> + ".byte 0xe9\n\t .long %l[l_yes] - 2f\n\t"
> + "2:\n\t"
> + ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
> + _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> + _ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
> + ".popsection \n\t"
> + : : "i" (&((struct foo *)key)->zero) : : l_yes);
> + } else {
> + asm_volatile_goto("1:"
> + ".byte 0xe9\n\t .long %l[l_yes] - 2f\n\t"
> + "2:\n\t"
> + ".pushsection __jump_table, \"aw\" \n\t"
> + _ASM_ALIGN "\n\t"
> + _ASM_PTR "1b, %l[l_yes], %c0 \n\t"
> + ".popsection \n\t"
> + : : "i" (&((struct foo *)key)->one) : : l_yes);
> + }
>
> return false;
> l_yes:
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