From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <codonell@redhat.com>,
Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v7)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:16:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190327101608.77b0de6f@mschwideX1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1965431879.7576.1553529272844.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:54:32 -0400 (EDT)
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> >> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/bits/rseq.h
> [...]
> >> +
> >> +/* Signature required before each abort handler code. */
> >> +#define RSEQ_SIG 0x53053053
> >
> > Why not a s390 specific value here?
>
> s390 also has the abort handler in a __rseq_failure section:
>
> #define RSEQ_ASM_DEFINE_ABORT(label, teardown, abort_label) \
> ".pushsection __rseq_failure, \"ax\"\n\t" \
> ".long " __rseq_str(RSEQ_SIG) "\n\t" \
> __rseq_str(label) ":\n\t" \
> teardown \
> "j %l[" __rseq_str(abort_label) "]\n\t" \
> ".popsection\n\t"
>
> Same question applies as powerpc: since disassemblers will try to decode
> that instruction, would it be better to define it as a valid one ?
>
> [...]
A 4-byte sequence starting with 0x53 is decoded as a "diebr" instruction.
And please replace that "j %l[...]" with a "jg %l[...]", the branch target
range of the "j" instruction is 64K, not enough for the general case.
--
blue skies,
Martin.
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-27 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20190212194253.1951-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
2019-02-12 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v7) Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-03-22 20:09 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-03-25 15:54 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-03-27 9:16 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2019-03-27 20:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-03-27 20:38 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-03-28 7:49 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2019-03-28 15:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-02 6:02 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-04-02 7:08 ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-04 20:32 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-04-05 9:16 ` Florian Weimer
2019-04-05 15:40 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-04-08 19:20 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2019-04-08 21:45 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-04-09 4:23 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-04-09 9:29 ` Alan Modra
[not found] ` <871s2bp9f9.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
2019-04-09 14:13 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-04-09 15:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-18 15:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-09 16:33 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-04 20:15 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-04-04 20:50 ` Carlos O'Donell
2019-04-04 21:41 ` Paul Burton
2019-04-09 16:40 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-18 18:58 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-24 15:05 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-04-24 23:13 ` Paul Burton
2019-04-25 0:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2019-02-12 19:42 ` [PATCH 2/4] glibc: sched_getcpu(): use rseq cpu_id TLS on Linux Mathieu Desnoyers
2019-03-22 20:13 ` Carlos O'Donell
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