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From: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
To: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Huw Davies <huw@codeweavers.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 04/25] arm64: Substitute gettimeofday with C implementation
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:33:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190625153336.GZ2790@e103592.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190621095252.32307-5-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 10:52:31AM +0100, Vincenzo Frascino wrote:
> To take advantage of the commonly defined vdso interface for
> gettimeofday the architectural code requires an adaptation.
> 
> Re-implement the gettimeofday vdso in C in order to use lib/vdso.
> 
> With the new implementation arm64 gains support for CLOCK_BOOTTIME
> and CLOCK_TAI.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Shijith Thotton <sthotton@marvell.com>
> Tested-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>

[...]

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..bc3cb6738051
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/*
> + * Copyright (C) 2018 ARM Limited
> + */
> +#ifndef __ASM_VDSO_GETTIMEOFDAY_H
> +#define __ASM_VDSO_GETTIMEOFDAY_H
> +
> +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
> +
> +#include <asm/unistd.h>
> +#include <uapi/linux/time.h>
> +
> +#define VDSO_HAS_CLOCK_GETRES		1
> +
> +static __always_inline int gettimeofday_fallback(
> +					struct __kernel_old_timeval *_tv,
> +					struct timezone *_tz)

Out of interest, does this need to be __always_inline?

> +{
> +	register struct timezone *tz asm("x1") = _tz;
> +	register struct __kernel_old_timeval *tv asm("x0") = _tv;
> +	register long ret asm ("x0");
> +	register long nr asm("x8") = __NR_gettimeofday;
> +
> +	asm volatile(
> +	"       svc #0\n"

Can inlining of this function result in non-trivial expressions being
substituted for _tz or _tv?

A function call can clobber register asm vars that are assigned to the
caller-save registers or that the PCS uses for function arguments, and
the situations where this can happen are poorly defined AFAICT.  There's
also no reliable way to detect at build time whether the compiler has
done this, and no robust way to stop if happening.

(IMHO the compiler is wrong to do this, but it's been that way for ever,
and I think I saw GCC 9 show this behaviour recently when I was
investigating something related.)


To be safe, it's better to put this out of line, or remove the reg asm()
specifiers, mark x0-x18 and lr as clobbered here (so that the compiler
doesn't map arguments to them), and put movs in the asm to move things
into the right registers.  The syscall number can be passed with an "i"
constraint.  (And yes, this sucks.)

If the code this is inlined in is simple enough though, we can be fairly
confident of getting away with it.

[...]

Cheers
---Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-06-25 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-21  9:52 [PATCH v7 00/25] Unify vDSOs across more architectures Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 01/25] kernel: Standardize vdso_datapage Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24 13:56   ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 02/25] kernel: Define gettimeofday vdso common code Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 03/25] kernel: Unify update_vsyscall implementation Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21 10:49   ` Huw Davies
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 04/25] arm64: Substitute gettimeofday with C implementation Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24 13:36   ` Will Deacon
2019-06-24 13:59     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-25 16:18     ` [PATCH 1/3] lib/vdso: Delay mask application in do_hres() Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-25 16:18       ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: Fix __arch_get_hw_counter() implementation Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-25 16:18       ` [PATCH 3/3] arm64: compat: " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-25 17:02       ` [PATCH 1/3] lib/vdso: Delay mask application in do_hres() Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-25 18:27         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-25 20:15           ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-25 22:24             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-26  6:38         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-26  9:25           ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-26 10:02             ` lib/vdso: Make delta calculation work correctly Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-26 11:08               ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24 13:58   ` [PATCH v7 04/25] arm64: Substitute gettimeofday with C implementation Catalin Marinas
2019-06-25 15:33   ` Dave Martin [this message]
2019-06-26 13:27     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-26 16:14       ` Dave Martin
2019-06-26 19:01         ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-27 10:01           ` Dave Martin
2019-06-27 10:57             ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-27 11:27               ` Dave Martin
2019-06-27 11:59                 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-27 14:38                   ` Dave Martin
2019-06-27 15:34                     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-25 17:43   ` [PATCH] arm64: vdso: Fix compilation with clang < 8 Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-26 11:36   ` [PATCH v2] arm64: vdso: Fix compilation with clang older then 8 Vincenzo Frascino
     [not found]   ` <CGME20190628130921eucas1p239935b0771032c331911eacc1a69dd2e@eucas1p2.samsung.com>
2019-06-28 13:09     ` [PATCH v7 04/25] arm64: Substitute gettimeofday with C implementation Marek Szyprowski
2019-06-28 14:32       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-28 16:50         ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2019-06-29  6:58           ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-08 12:57             ` Sylwester Nawrocki
2019-07-08 13:09               ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 05/25] arm64: Build vDSO with -ffixed-x18 Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 06/25] arm64: compat: Add missing syscall numbers Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 07/25] arm64: compat: Expose signal related structures Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 08/25] arm64: compat: Generate asm offsets for signals Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 09/25] lib: vdso: Add compat support Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 10/25] arm64: compat: Add vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24 14:00   ` Catalin Marinas
2019-07-10  4:02   ` John Stultz
2019-07-10  6:12     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-10  9:48       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-10  8:27     ` Will Deacon
2019-07-10  8:58       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-10  9:12         ` Will Deacon
2019-07-10  9:47     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-10 13:41       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-10 13:04   ` [PATCH] arm64: vdso: Fix ABI regression in compat vdso Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-10 13:25     ` Will Deacon
2019-07-10 13:42       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-10 14:01   ` [PATCH v2] " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-10 15:44     ` John Stultz
2019-07-10 15:53       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-11  9:45     ` Will Deacon
2019-07-11 10:34       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-11 11:32         ` Will Deacon
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 11/25] arm64: Refactor vDSO code Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 12/25] arm64: compat: vDSO setup for compat layer Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 13/25] arm64: elf: vDSO code page discovery Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 14/25] arm64: compat: Get sigreturn trampolines from vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 15/25] arm64: Add vDSO compat support Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 16/25] arm: Add support for generic vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-12-04 13:51   ` [PATCH v7 16/25] arm: Add support for generic vDSO (causing crash) Guenter Roeck
2019-12-04 13:58     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-12-04 16:16       ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-04 17:15         ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-12-04 19:39           ` Guenter Roeck
2019-12-05  9:42           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-12-05 10:00             ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-12-05 11:02               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-12-05 14:56                 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 17/25] arm: Add clock_getres entry point Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 18/25] arm: Add clock_gettime64 " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 19/25] mips: Add support for generic vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-26  5:15   ` Paul Burton
2019-07-26 16:29     ` [PATCH 0/2] mips: vdso: Fix Makefile Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-26 16:29       ` [PATCH 1/2] mips: vdso: Fix source path Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-26 16:29       ` [PATCH 2/2] mips: vdso: Fix flip/flop vdso building bug Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-28 22:20       ` [PATCH 0/2] mips: vdso: Fix Makefile Paul Burton
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 20/25] mips: Add clock_getres entry point Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-26  5:15   ` Paul Burton
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 21/25] mips: Add clock_gettime64 " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-07-26  5:15   ` Paul Burton
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 22/25] x86: Add support for generic vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 23/25] x86: Add clock_getres entry point Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 24/25] x86: Add clock_gettime64 " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-21  9:52 ` [PATCH v7 25/25] kselftest: Extend vDSO selftest Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24  0:34 ` [PATCH v7 00/25] Unify vDSOs across more architectures Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-24  1:15   ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-06-24  7:42     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-24 13:21   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24 14:18   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-06-24 14:23     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-06-24 14:49       ` Catalin Marinas
2019-06-24 16:20         ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-10-25 11:42         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-06-24 18:41   ` Paul Burton
2019-06-24 23:16     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-25 17:11       ` Paul Burton
2019-06-25 17:17         ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24 12:50 ` Andre Przywara

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