linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] x86/paravirt: Don't make vcpu_is

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Message-ID: <fc65322b-902e-6589-f64c-62be5abdb093@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Feb 2017 09:46:17 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
        Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
        Alok Kataria <akataria@...are.com>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] x86/paravirt: Don't make vcpu_is_preempted() a
 callee-save function

On 02/14/2017 04:39 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 05:34:01PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> It is the address of &steal_time that will exceed the 32-bit limit.
> That seems extremely unlikely. That would mean we have more than 4G
> worth of per-cpu variables declared in the kernel.

I have some doubt about if the compiler is able to properly use
RIP-relative addressing for this. Anyway, it seems like constraints
aren't allowed for asm() when not in the function context, at least for
the the compiler that I am using (4.8.5). So it is a moot point.

Cheers,
Longman