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[v2] mips: lib: uncached: fix non-standard usage of variable 'sp'

Message ID 20201211102437.3929348-1-anders.roxell@linaro.org (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 5b058973d3205578aa6c9a71392e072a11ca44ef
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Series [v2] mips: lib: uncached: fix non-standard usage of variable 'sp' | expand

Commit Message

Anders Roxell Dec. 11, 2020, 10:24 a.m. UTC
When building mips tinyconfig with clang the following warning show up:

arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:45:6: warning: variable 'sp' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
        if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
            ^~
arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:40:18: note: initialize the variable 'sp' to silence this warning
        register long sp __asm__("$sp");
                        ^
                         = 0
1 warning generated.

Rework to make an explicit inline move, instead of the non-standard use
of specifying registers for local variables. This is what's written
from the gcc-10 manual [1] about specifying registers for local
variables:

"6.47.5.2 Specifying Registers for Local Variables
.................................................
[...]

"The only supported use for this feature is to specify registers for
input and output operands when calling Extended 'asm' (*note Extended
Asm::).  [...]".

[1] https://docs.w3cub.com/gcc~10/local-register-variables
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
---
 arch/mips/lib/uncached.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Nick Desaulniers Dec. 11, 2020, 7:15 p.m. UTC | #1
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:24 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> When building mips tinyconfig with clang the following warning show up:
>
> arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:45:6: warning: variable 'sp' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
>         if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
>             ^~
> arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:40:18: note: initialize the variable 'sp' to silence this warning
>         register long sp __asm__("$sp");
>                         ^
>                          = 0
> 1 warning generated.
>
> Rework to make an explicit inline move, instead of the non-standard use
> of specifying registers for local variables. This is what's written
> from the gcc-10 manual [1] about specifying registers for local
> variables:
>
> "6.47.5.2 Specifying Registers for Local Variables
> .................................................
> [...]
>
> "The only supported use for this feature is to specify registers for
> input and output operands when calling Extended 'asm' (*note Extended
> Asm::).  [...]".
>
> [1] https://docs.w3cub.com/gcc~10/local-register-variables
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/606
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

> ---
>  arch/mips/lib/uncached.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> index 09d5deea747f..f80a67c092b6 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> @@ -37,10 +37,12 @@
>   */
>  unsigned long run_uncached(void *func)
>  {
> -       register long sp __asm__("$sp");
>         register long ret __asm__("$2");
>         long lfunc = (long)func, ufunc;
>         long usp;
> +       long sp;
> +
> +       __asm__("move %0, $sp" : "=r" (sp));
>
>         if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
>                 usp = CKSEG1ADDR(sp);
> --
> 2.29.2
>
Maciej W. Rozycki Dec. 11, 2020, 7:54 p.m. UTC | #2
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, Anders Roxell wrote:

> diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> index 09d5deea747f..f80a67c092b6 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> +++ b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> @@ -37,10 +37,12 @@
>   */
>  unsigned long run_uncached(void *func)
>  {
> -	register long sp __asm__("$sp");
>  	register long ret __asm__("$2");
>  	long lfunc = (long)func, ufunc;
>  	long usp;
> +	long sp;
> +
> +	__asm__("move %0, $sp" : "=r" (sp));

 I thought it might be better to make `sp' global instead, so that it's 
the compiler that chooses how to schedule accesses.  Have you tried that?

  Maciej
Nathan Chancellor Dec. 12, 2020, 5:52 a.m. UTC | #3
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 07:54:07PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, Anders Roxell wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> > index 09d5deea747f..f80a67c092b6 100644
> > --- a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> > +++ b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
> > @@ -37,10 +37,12 @@
> >   */
> >  unsigned long run_uncached(void *func)
> >  {
> > -	register long sp __asm__("$sp");
> >  	register long ret __asm__("$2");
> >  	long lfunc = (long)func, ufunc;
> >  	long usp;
> > +	long sp;
> > +
> > +	__asm__("move %0, $sp" : "=r" (sp));
> 
>  I thought it might be better to make `sp' global instead, so that it's 
> the compiler that chooses how to schedule accesses.  Have you tried that?
> 
>   Maciej

This will not work, as the LLVM Mips backend does not support using $sp
as a global register variable:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/1440bb2a26ff13df1b29762658ee122cc0bc47ae

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=mips CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-linux-gnu- LLVM=1 O=out \
distclean malta_kvm_guest_defconfig vmlinux
fatal error: error in backend: Invalid register name global variable
...

Cheers,
Nathan
Thomas Bogendoerfer Dec. 14, 2020, 3:24 p.m. UTC | #4
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:24:37AM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote:
> When building mips tinyconfig with clang the following warning show up:
> 
> arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:45:6: warning: variable 'sp' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
>         if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
>             ^~
> arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:40:18: note: initialize the variable 'sp' to silence this warning
>         register long sp __asm__("$sp");
>                         ^
>                          = 0
> 1 warning generated.
> 
> Rework to make an explicit inline move, instead of the non-standard use
> of specifying registers for local variables. This is what's written
> from the gcc-10 manual [1] about specifying registers for local
> variables:
> 
> "6.47.5.2 Specifying Registers for Local Variables
> .................................................
> [...]
> 
> "The only supported use for this feature is to specify registers for
> input and output operands when calling Extended 'asm' (*note Extended
> Asm::).  [...]".
> 
> [1] https://docs.w3cub.com/gcc~10/local-register-variables
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
> ---
>  arch/mips/lib/uncached.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.
Naresh Kamboju Dec. 20, 2020, 4:07 a.m. UTC | #5
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 21:05, Thomas Bogendoerfer
<tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:24:37AM +0100, Anders Roxell wrote:
> > When building mips tinyconfig with clang the following warning show up:
> >
> > arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:45:6: warning: variable 'sp' is uninitialized when used here [-Wuninitialized]
> >         if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
> >             ^~
> > arch/mips/lib/uncached.c:40:18: note: initialize the variable 'sp' to silence this warning
> >         register long sp __asm__("$sp");
> >                         ^
> >                          = 0
> > 1 warning generated.

<trimp>

> > [1] https://docs.w3cub.com/gcc~10/local-register-variables
> > Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  arch/mips/lib/uncached.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> applied to mips-next.

We have noticed these build failures on stable tree also.
May I request you to initiate the process to get into the stable tree
and for the following branches.
 - linux-5.10.y
 - linux-5.9.y
 - linux-5.4.y
 - linux-4.19.y

- Naresh
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diff --git a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
index 09d5deea747f..f80a67c092b6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
+++ b/arch/mips/lib/uncached.c
@@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ 
  */
 unsigned long run_uncached(void *func)
 {
-	register long sp __asm__("$sp");
 	register long ret __asm__("$2");
 	long lfunc = (long)func, ufunc;
 	long usp;
+	long sp;
+
+	__asm__("move %0, $sp" : "=r" (sp));
 
 	if (sp >= (long)CKSEG0 && sp < (long)CKSEG2)
 		usp = CKSEG1ADDR(sp);