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Message-ID: <A120A8EC-AB1E-44FB-AEAB-09DFE282CCF8@zytor.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 06:41:12 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: More annoying code generation by clang
On April 8, 2024 1:49:34 AM PDT, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 04, 2024 at 03:53:49PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
>> index 66e57c010392..6159d2cbbfde 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/barrier.h
>> @@ -33,20 +33,15 @@
>> * Returns:
>> * 0 - (index < size)
>> */
>> +#define array_index_mask_nospec(idx,sz) ({ \
>> + typeof((idx)+(sz)) __idx = (idx); \
>> + typeof(__idx) __sz = (sz); \
>> + typeof(__idx) __mask; \
>> + asm volatile ("cmp %1,%2; sbb %0,%0" \
>> + :"=r" (__mask) \
>> + :"ir"(__sz),"r" (__idx) \
>> + :"cc"); \
>> + __mask; })
>
>Should this not carry a comment about the "ir" constraint wanting to be
>"g" except for clang being daft?
>
>(I really wish clang would go fix this, it keeps coming up time and
>again).
>
>>
>> /* Prevent speculative execution past this barrier. */
>> #define barrier_nospec() asm volatile("lfence":::"memory")
>
If the only reason for "ir" as opposed to "g" (= "irm") is clang then it really needs to be called out. Or better yet, don't do anything and let the clang people actually fix their code generation.
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