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Message-ID: <BD7773622145634B952E5B54ACA8E349AA24BD1A@PUMAIL01.pu.imgtec.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 03:54:02 +0000
From: Jaydeep Patil <Jaydeep.Patil@...tec.com>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
CC: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fix atomic_arch.h for MIPS32 R6
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich Felker [mailto:dalias@...ifal.cx] On Behalf Of Rich Felker
>Sent: 28 March 2016 PM 06:35
>To: Jaydeep Patil
>Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
>Subject: Re: [musl] [PATCH] Fix atomic_arch.h for MIPS32 R6
>
>On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 05:07:39AM +0000, Jaydeep Patil wrote:
>> >> >I was just saying it makes the code less cluttered to use them
>> >> >spuriously even though we don't need to:
>> >> >
>> >> > ".set push ; "
>> >> >#if __mips_isa_rev < 6
>> >> > ".set mips2 ; "
>> >> >#endif
>> >> > "ll %0, %1 ; .set pop"
>> >> >
>> >> >or similar.
>> >> >
>> >> >It's also not clear to me whether the "m" constraint is valid
>> >> >anymore for the R6 ll/sc instructions since they take a 9-bit
>> >> >offset now instead of a
>> >16-bit offset.
>> >> >The compiler could generate an address expression whose offset
>> >> >part does not fit in 9 bits. In that case we may need to #if the
>> >> >whole function (or at least the __asm__ statement) separately
>> >> >rather than just
>> >skipping the .set mips2....
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> The "m" constrain is still valid here, as the offset will be 0 in this case..
>> >
>> >How can you assume the offset will be 0? It's the compiler's choice
>> >what to use. For instance, a_cas(&foo->bar, t, s) is likely to have
>> >an offset equal to offsetof(__typeof__(foo),bar). AFAIK this happens
>> >in practice with small offsets in mutex structures, etc. so the bug
>> >may be unlikely to be hit, but I think it's still an incorrect-constraint bug.
>>
>> Compiler generates appropriate LL/SC based on the offset.
>> Compiler adds the offset to the base register if it does not fit 9bits.
>
>The compiler has no way of knowing that the operand will be used with ll with
>the 9-bit offset restriction; as far as it knows, it will be used in a normal
>context where a 16-bit offset is valid. I don't have a toolchain that will target
>r6, but you can try the following program which produces an offset of 4096 for
>loading p[1024]:
>
>unsigned ll1k(volatile unsigned *p)
>{
> unsigned val;
> __asm__ __volatile__ ("ll %0, %1" : "=r"(val) : "m"(p[1024]) :
>"memory" );
> return val;
>}
>
>I would expect this to produce errors at assembly time on r6.
>Rich
This is what compiler has generated for above function:
$ gcc -c -o main.o main.c -O3 -mips32r6 -mabi=32
Objdump:
00000000 <ll1k>:
0: 24821000 addiu v0,a0,4096
4: 7c420036 ll v0,0(v0)
8: d81f0000 jrc ra
c: 00000000 nop
Regards,
Jaydeep
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