From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: slightly improve cache helpers
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 09:21:53 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875znt7izy.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190722151801.GC20882@gate.crashing.org>
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 08:15:14PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>> > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 12:58:46AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>> >> 0000017c clear_user_page:
>> >> 17c: 94 21 ff f0 stwu 1, -16(1)
>> >> 180: 38 80 00 80 li 4, 128
>> >> 184: 38 63 ff e0 addi 3, 3, -32
>> >> 188: 7c 89 03 a6 mtctr 4
>> >> 18c: 38 81 00 0f addi 4, 1, 15
>> >> 190: 8c c3 00 20 lbzu 6, 32(3)
>> >> 194: 98 c1 00 0f stb 6, 15(1)
>> >> 198: 7c 00 27 ec dcbz 0, 4
>> >> 19c: 42 00 ff f4 bdnz .+65524
>> >
>> > Uh, yeah, well, I have no idea what clang tried here, but that won't
>> > work. It's copying a byte from each target cache line to the stack,
>> > and then does clears the cache line containing that byte on the stack.
>>
>> So it seems like this is a clang bug.
>>
>> None of the distros we support use clang, but we would still like to
>> keep it working if we can.
>
> Which version? Which versions *are* broken?
AFAIK clang 8 is the first version that we could build with, without
hacks.
>> Looking at the original patch, the only upside is that the compiler
>> can use both RA and RB to compute the address, rather than us forcing RA
>> to 0.
>>
>> But at least with my compiler here (GCC 8 vintage) I don't actually see
>> GCC ever using both GPRs even with the patch. Or at least, there's no
>> difference before/after the patch as far as I can see.
>
> The benefit is small, certainly.
Zero is small, but I guess some things are smaller? :P
>> So my inclination is to revert the original patch. We can try again in a
>> few years :D
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> I think you should give the clang people time to figure out what is
> going on.
Yeah fair enough, will wait and see what their diagnosis is.
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-22 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-10 9:24 [PATCH v2] powerpc: slightly improve cache helpers Christophe Leroy
2019-07-08 1:19 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-08 19:14 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-09 5:04 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-07-09 6:49 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-19 3:24 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-19 15:23 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-19 16:04 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-21 7:58 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-21 18:01 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-22 2:41 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-22 6:19 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-22 17:21 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-22 17:58 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-25 21:30 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-29 20:28 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-22 10:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-07-22 15:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-22 23:21 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2019-07-25 13:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-22 0:53 ` [PATCH] powerpc: Test broken dcbz kbuild test robot
2019-07-09 13:35 ` [PATCH v2] powerpc: slightly improve cache helpers Segher Boessenkool
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