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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	linux-toolchains@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: prefer memory clobber & %= to volatile & __COUNTER__
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:31:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220125233128.GT614@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKwvOdmLzwz=02ypt0_1324_5-7i3Az7HizFaDMqZv__-D99uA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi!

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 03:26:36PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> I noticed in that report and
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202201190702.XNSXrMTK-lkp@intel.com/
> that gcc-9 was used.  I wonder if %= has been fixed in gcc-10+? Have
> there been other reports with gcc-10+ for my patch?

None of the %= code (which is trivial) has been changed since 1992.

> If this is fixed in gcc-10, then we can probably add a comment with a
> FIXME link to the issue or commit to replace __COUNTER__ with %= one
> day.  If not, then we can probably come up with a reduced test case
> for the GCC devs to take a look at, then add the FIXME comment to
> kernel sources.

Please open a PR?

> I'm more confident that we can remove the `volatile` keyword (I was
> thinking about adding a new diagnostic to clang to warn that volatile
> is redundate+implied for asm goto or inline asm that doesn't have
> outputs) though that's not the problem here and will probably generate
> some kernel wide cleanup before we could enable such a flag.

Its main value is that it would discourage users from thinking volatile
is magic.  Seriously worth some pain!

> Perhaps
> there are known compiler versions that still require the keyword for
> those cases for some reason.

It was removed from compiler-gcc.h in 3347acc6fcd4 (which changed the
minimum required GCC version to GCC 5).


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-25 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-14  1:05 [PATCH] objtool: prefer memory clobber & %= to volatile & __COUNTER__ Nick Desaulniers
2022-01-14 21:58 ` Nathan Chancellor
2022-01-16 13:32 ` Borislav Petkov
2022-01-18 19:22   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-01-18 23:01     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-01-18 23:33       ` Borislav Petkov
2022-01-19  0:03         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2022-01-19 10:01           ` Borislav Petkov
2022-01-24 23:26       ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-01-24 23:38         ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-01-25 18:49           ` Borislav Petkov
2022-01-25 23:31         ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2022-01-26  0:59           ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-01-26  2:12             ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-01-26 11:13               ` Segher Boessenkool
2022-01-31 20:45           ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-01-31 22:13             ` Segher Boessenkool

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