linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 11/18] arm64: make mrs_s and msr

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Date:   Thu, 16 Nov 2017 13:55:31 +0000
From:   Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>,
        Alex Matveev <alxmtvv@...il.com>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/18] arm64: make mrs_s and msr_s macros work with LTO

On 16/11/17 13:07, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:54:33AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 01:34:21PM -0800, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
>>> From: Alex Matveev <alxmtvv@...il.com>
>>>
>>> Use UNDEFINE_MRS_S and UNDEFINE_MSR_S to define corresponding macros
>>> in-place and workaround gcc and clang limitations on redefining macros
>>> across different assembler blocks.
>>
>> What limitations? Can you elaborate please? Is this a fix?
> 
> Hi Will,
> 
> Regarding GCC.
> 
> When it joins preprocessed source files into single asm file,
> mrs_s/msr_s becomes either not declared or declared multiple times.
> 
> ./ccuFb68h.s:33120: Error: Macro `mrs_s' was already defined
> ./ccuFb68h.s:33124: Error: Macro `msr_s' was already defined
> 
> I'm not sure that GCC works correctly in this case, and I sent the
> email to Linaro toolchain group to clarify it. See below.
> 
> Yury
> 
> [...]
> 
> Links:
> My unfinished branch:
> https://github.com/norov/linux/tree/lto
> Andi Kleen tree:
> https://github.com/andikleen/linux-misc/tree/lto-411-1
> Sami Tolvanen's recent work for clang:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/3/606
> 
> Question we have for now:
> There's mrs_s/msr_s macro that doesn't work with LTO - linker
> complains very loudly that macro is either not declared, or declared
> multiple times. (To reproduce - try to build my kernel branch w/o last
> patch).
> 
> The same (?) problem is observed with clang, and people there
> considered it as feature, not a bug.
> 
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19749
> 
> We have the fix for both clang and gcc, but it looks hacky. Maybe it
> worth to fix mrs/msr issue on toolchain side?

Given that this whole mrs_s infrastructure is a workaround for older 
assemblers which don't support the "S<op0>_<op1>_<Cn>_<Cm>_<op2>" syntax 
for arbitrary unnamed system registers (which IIRC was a fairly late 
addition to the architecture), the only way it could be "fixed" on the 
toolchain side is by removing all those older toolchains from existence. 
Good luck with that ;)

In *theory*, it might be possible to do something similar to what we do 
with CONFIG_BROKEN_GAS_INST to detect offending assemblers and only 
define and use these macros when necessary (hopefully Clang and other 
LTO-capable toolchains do accept the proper syntax), but I've no idea 
how invasive or difficult that might turn out to be.

Robin.