Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get_user()

From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	npiggin@gmail.com, segher@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/uaccess: Use flexible addressing with __put_user()/__get_user()
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:55:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <311c3471-cad7-72d5-a5e6-04cf892c5e41@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zb98i5a.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>

Le 30/06/2020 à 03:19, Michael Ellerman a écrit :
> Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> writes:
>> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> writes:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> I see this patch is marked as "defered" in patchwork, but I can't see
>>> any related discussion. Is it normal ?
>>
>> Because it uses the "m<>" constraint which didn't work on GCC 4.6.
>>
>> https://github.com/linuxppc/issues/issues/297
>>
>> So we should be able to pick it up for v5.9 hopefully.
> 
> It seems to break the build with the kernel.org 4.9.4 compiler and
> corenet64_smp_defconfig:

Looks like 4.9.4 doesn't accept "m<>" constraint either.
Changing it to "m" make it build.

Christophe

> 
> + make -s CC=powerpc64-linux-gnu-gcc -j 160
> In file included from /linux/include/linux/uaccess.h:11:0,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/sched/task.h:11,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/sched/signal.h:9,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/rcuwait.h:6,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:7,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/fs.h:33,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/huge_mm.h:8,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/mm.h:675,
>                   from /linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:17:
> /linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c: In function 'save_user_regs.isra.14.constprop':
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:161:2: error: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints
>    __asm__ __volatile__(     \
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:197:12: note: in expansion of macro '__put_user_asm'
>      case 4: __put_user_asm(x, ptr, retval, "stw"); break; \
>              ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:206:2: note: in expansion of macro '__put_user_size_allowed'
>    __put_user_size_allowed(x, ptr, size, retval);  \
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:220:2: note: in expansion of macro '__put_user_size'
>    __put_user_size(__pu_val, __pu_addr, __pu_size, __pu_err); \
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:96:2: note: in expansion of macro '__put_user_nocheck'
>    __put_user_nocheck((__typeof__(*(ptr)))(x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)))
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c:120:7: note: in expansion of macro '__put_user'
>     if (__put_user((unsigned int)gregs[i], &frame->mc_gregs[i]))
>         ^
> /linux/scripts/Makefile.build:280: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.o' failed
> make[3]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.o] Error 1
> make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> In file included from /linux/include/linux/uaccess.h:11:0,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/sched/task.h:11,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/sched/signal.h:9,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/rcuwait.h:6,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h:7,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/fs.h:33,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/huge_mm.h:8,
>                   from /linux/include/linux/mm.h:675,
>                   from /linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:12:
> /linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: In function '__se_sys_swapcontext':
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:319:2: error: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints
>    __asm__ __volatile__(    \
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:359:10: note: in expansion of macro '__get_user_asm'
>    case 1: __get_user_asm(x, (u8 __user *)ptr, retval, "lbz"); break; \
>            ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:370:2: note: in expansion of macro '__get_user_size_allowed'
>    __get_user_size_allowed(x, ptr, size, retval);  \
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:393:3: note: in expansion of macro '__get_user_size'
>     __get_user_size(__gu_val, __gu_addr, __gu_size, __gu_err); \
>     ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/include/asm/uaccess.h:94:2: note: in expansion of macro '__get_user_nocheck'
>    __get_user_nocheck((x), (ptr), sizeof(*(ptr)), true)
>    ^
> /linux/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c:672:9: note: in expansion of macro '__get_user'
>        || __get_user(tmp, (u8 __user *) new_ctx + ctx_size - 1))
>           ^
> /linux/scripts/Makefile.build:280: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.o' failed
> make[3]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.o] Error 1
> /linux/scripts/Makefile.build:497: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc/kernel' failed
> make[2]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel] Error 2
> /linux/Makefile:1756: recipe for target 'arch/powerpc' failed
> make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc] Error 2
> Makefile:185: recipe for target '__sub-make' failed
> make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
> 
> 
> cheers
> 