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Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:08:29 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: arm64 tools build failure wrt smp_load_{acquire,release}
 expansion on gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro
 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9)

On 10/31/2018 06:44 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Arnaldo,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:45:50PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> So I noticed the following build failure thare point to:
>>
>> commit 09d62154f61316f7e97eae3f31ef8770c7e4b386
>> Author: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
>> Date:   Fri Oct 19 15:51:02 2018 +0200
>>
>>     tools, perf: add and use optimized ring_buffer_{read_head, write_tail} helpers
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>>   50 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64          : FAIL aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.9) 5.4.0 20160609
>>   
>> Works well with:
>>
>>   59 ubuntu:18.04-x-arm64          : Ok   aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0
>>
>> And all the other environments I test build :-)

Urgh, sorry about that, I tested the patch with arm64 on Ubuntu 18.04
back then, but not 16.04. :(

> Cheers for reporting this. I managed to reproduce the build failure with
> gcc version 6.3.0 20170516 (Debian 6.3.0-18+deb9u1).
> 
> The code in question is the arm64 versions of smp_load_acquire() and
> smp_store_release(). Unlike other architectures, these are not built
> around READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() since we have instructions we can
> use instead of fences. Bringing our macros up-to-date with those (i.e.
> tweaking the union initialisation and using the special "uXX_alias_t"
> types) appears to fix the issue for me.
> 
> Diff below...

I just gave this a spin on 16.04 and it resolves the build issue, thanks
for the quick fix, Will!

Tested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>

> Will
> 
> --->8
> 
> diff --git a/tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h b/tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> index 12835ea0e417..378c051fa177 100644
> --- a/tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> +++ b/tools/arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h
> @@ -14,74 +14,75 @@
>  #define wmb()		asm volatile("dmb ishst" ::: "memory")
>  #define rmb()		asm volatile("dmb ishld" ::: "memory")
>  
> -#define smp_store_release(p, v)					\
> -do {								\
> -	union { typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u =		\
> -		{ .__val = (__force typeof(*p)) (v) }; 		\
> -								\
> -	switch (sizeof(*p)) {					\
> -	case 1:							\
> -		asm volatile ("stlrb %w1, %0"			\
> -				: "=Q" (*p)			\
> -				: "r" (*(__u8 *)__u.__c)	\
> -				: "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	case 2:							\
> -		asm volatile ("stlrh %w1, %0"			\
> -				: "=Q" (*p)			\
> -				: "r" (*(__u16 *)__u.__c)	\
> -				: "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	case 4:							\
> -		asm volatile ("stlr %w1, %0"			\
> -				: "=Q" (*p)			\
> -				: "r" (*(__u32 *)__u.__c)	\
> -				: "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	case 8:							\
> -		asm volatile ("stlr %1, %0"			\
> -				: "=Q" (*p)			\
> -				: "r" (*(__u64 *)__u.__c)	\
> -				: "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	default:						\
> -		/* Only to shut up gcc ... */			\
> -		mb();						\
> -		break;						\
> -	}							\
> +#define smp_store_release(p, v)						\
> +do {									\
> +	union { typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u =			\
> +		{ .__val = (v) }; 					\
> +									\
> +	switch (sizeof(*p)) {						\
> +	case 1:								\
> +		asm volatile ("stlrb %w1, %0"				\
> +				: "=Q" (*p)				\
> +				: "r" (*(__u8_alias_t *)__u.__c)	\
> +				: "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	case 2:								\
> +		asm volatile ("stlrh %w1, %0"				\
> +				: "=Q" (*p)				\
> +				: "r" (*(__u16_alias_t *)__u.__c)	\
> +				: "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	case 4:								\
> +		asm volatile ("stlr %w1, %0"				\
> +				: "=Q" (*p)				\
> +				: "r" (*(__u32_alias_t *)__u.__c)	\
> +				: "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	case 8:								\
> +		asm volatile ("stlr %1, %0"				\
> +				: "=Q" (*p)				\
> +				: "r" (*(__u64_alias_t *)__u.__c)	\
> +				: "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	default:							\
> +		/* Only to shut up gcc ... */				\
> +		mb();							\
> +		break;							\
> +	}								\
>  } while (0)
>  
> -#define smp_load_acquire(p)					\
> -({								\
> -	union { typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u;		\
> -								\
> -	switch (sizeof(*p)) {					\
> -	case 1:							\
> -		asm volatile ("ldarb %w0, %1"			\
> -			: "=r" (*(__u8 *)__u.__c)		\
> -			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	case 2:							\
> -		asm volatile ("ldarh %w0, %1"			\
> -			: "=r" (*(__u16 *)__u.__c)		\
> -			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	case 4:							\
> -		asm volatile ("ldar %w0, %1"			\
> -			: "=r" (*(__u32 *)__u.__c)		\
> -			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	case 8:							\
> -		asm volatile ("ldar %0, %1"			\
> -			: "=r" (*(__u64 *)__u.__c)		\
> -			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");			\
> -		break;						\
> -	default:						\
> -		/* Only to shut up gcc ... */			\
> -		mb();						\
> -		break;						\
> -	}							\
> -	__u.__val;						\
> +#define smp_load_acquire(p)						\
> +({									\
> +	union { typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u =			\
> +		{ .__c = { 0 } };					\
> +									\
> +	switch (sizeof(*p)) {						\
> +	case 1:								\
> +		asm volatile ("ldarb %w0, %1"				\
> +			: "=r" (*(__u8_alias_t *)__u.__c)		\
> +			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	case 2:								\
> +		asm volatile ("ldarh %w0, %1"				\
> +			: "=r" (*(__u16_alias_t *)__u.__c)		\
> +			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	case 4:								\
> +		asm volatile ("ldar %w0, %1"				\
> +			: "=r" (*(__u32_alias_t *)__u.__c)		\
> +			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	case 8:								\
> +		asm volatile ("ldar %0, %1"				\
> +			: "=r" (*(__u64_alias_t *)__u.__c)		\
> +			: "Q" (*p) : "memory");				\
> +		break;							\
> +	default:							\
> +		/* Only to shut up gcc ... */				\
> +		mb();							\
> +		break;							\
> +	}								\
> +	__u.__val;							\
>  })
>  
>  #endif /* _TOOLS_LINUX_ASM_AARCH64_BARRIER_H */
> 

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