linux/arch
Josh Poimboeuf f5caf621ee x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang
For inline asm statements which have a CALL instruction, we list the
stack pointer as a constraint to convince GCC to ensure the frame
pointer is set up first:

  static inline void foo()
  {
	register void *__sp asm(_ASM_SP);
	asm("call bar" : "+r" (__sp))
  }

Unfortunately, that pattern causes Clang to corrupt the stack pointer.

The fix is easy: convert the stack pointer register variable to a global
variable.

It should be noted that the end result is different based on the GCC
version.  With GCC 6.4, this patch has exactly the same result as
before:

	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
 before	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940
 after	9820389		9491555		8816046		8516940

With GCC 7.2, however, GCC's behavior has changed.  It now changes its
behavior based on the conversion of the register variable to a global.
That somehow convinces it to *always* set up the frame pointer before
inserting *any* inline asm.  (Therefore, listing the variable as an
output constraint is a no-op and is no longer necessary.)  It's a bit
overkill, but the performance impact should be negligible.  And in fact,
there's a nice improvement with frame pointers disabled:

	defconfig	defconfig-nofp	distro		distro-nofp
 before	9796316		9468236		9076191		8790305
 after	9796957		9464267		9076381		8785949

So in summary, while listing the stack pointer as an output constraint
is no longer necessary for newer versions of GCC, it's still needed for
older versions.

Suggested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Reported-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dmitriy Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miguel Bernal Marin <miguel.bernal.marin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3db862e970c432ae823cf515c52b54fec8270e0e.1505942196.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-23 15:06:20 +02:00
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alpha Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
arc mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag 2017-09-13 18:53:16 -07:00
arm The diff is dominated by the Allwinner A10/A20 SoCs getting converted to 2017-09-13 11:04:14 -07:00
arm64 arm64: stacktrace: avoid listing stacktrace functions in stacktrace 2017-09-13 18:53:16 -07:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
c6x c6x: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name 2017-08-24 09:35:40 -04:00
cris MTD changes for 4.14: 2017-09-09 14:48:21 -07:00
frv Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
h8300 arch: define CPU_BIG_ENDIAN for all fixed big endian archs 2017-09-08 18:26:48 -07:00
hexagon Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-04 11:52:29 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'work.ipc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 17:37:26 -07:00
m32r m32r: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu 2017-09-10 21:07:39 -07:00
metag dma-mapping updates for 4.14: 2017-09-12 13:30:06 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-09-09 10:30:07 -07:00
mips Merge branch '4.14-features' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-09-15 20:43:33 -07:00
mn10300 mn10300: defconfig: cleanup from old Kconfig options 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
nios2 nios2 update for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-15 12:47:21 -07:00
openrisc OpenRISC patches for 4.14 2017-09-13 11:52:18 -07:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
powerpc * PPC bugfixes 2017-09-15 15:43:55 -07:00
s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2017-09-12 06:01:59 -07:00
score
sh dma-mapping updates for 4.14: 2017-09-12 13:30:06 -07:00
sparc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2017-09-11 18:34:47 -07:00
tile dma-mapping updates for 4.14: 2017-09-12 13:30:06 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2017-09-16 12:03:25 -07:00
unicore32
x86 x86/asm: Fix inline asm call constraints for Clang 2017-09-23 15:06:20 +02:00
xtensa Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-09-06 20:49:49 -07:00
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Kconfig - For the randstruct plugin, enable automatic randomization of structures 2017-09-07 20:30:19 -07:00