From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Alexander Potapenko' <glider@google.com>,
"paulmck@linux.ibm.com" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>,
"hpa@zytor.com" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"dvyukov@google.com" <dvyukov@google.com>,
"jyknight@google.com" <jyknight@google.com>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] x86/asm: fix assembly constraints in bitops
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 11:45:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c6a1e592fd345618ef7b7d5bee592da@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190402112813.193378-1-glider@google.com>
From: Alexander Potapenko
> Sent: 02 April 2019 12:28
>
> 1. Use memory clobber in bitops that touch arbitrary memory
>
> Certain bit operations that read/write bits take a base pointer and an
> arbitrarily large offset to address the bit relative to that base.
Although x86_64 can use a signed 64bit bit number, looking at arm and arm64
they use 'int nr' throughout as do the generic functions.
Maybe x86 ought to be consistent here.
I doubt negative bit numbers are expected to work?
Did you try telling gcc that a big buffer (250MB is the limit for 32bit)
from the pointer might be changed?
That ought to be softer than a full 'memory' clobber as it should
only affect memory that could be accessed through the pointer.
....
> -#define BITOP_ADDR(x) "+m" (*(volatile long *) (x))
> +#define RLONG_ADDR(x) "m" (*(volatile long *) (x))
> +#define WBYTE_ADDR(x) "+m" (*(volatile char *) (x))
>
> -#define ADDR BITOP_ADDR(addr)
> +#define ADDR RLONG_ADDR(addr)
Is it worth just killing ADDR ?
(as a different patch)
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-02 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-02 11:28 [PATCH v2] x86/asm: fix assembly constraints in bitops Alexander Potapenko
2019-04-02 11:33 ` Alexander Potapenko
2019-04-02 11:45 ` David Laight [this message]
2019-04-02 12:35 ` Alexander Potapenko
2019-04-02 12:37 ` Alexander Potapenko
2019-04-05 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-05 11:12 ` David Laight
2019-04-05 11:53 ` Alexander Potapenko
2019-04-06 8:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-04-06 8:46 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86/asm: Use stricter " tip-bot for Alexander Potapenko
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