From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964850AbdJQL33 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:29:29 -0400 Received: from szxga03-in.huawei.com ([45.249.212.189]:13342 "EHLO szxga03-in.huawei.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933644AbdJQL2y (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2017 07:28:54 -0400 From: "Liuwenliang (Lamb)" To: Ard Biesheuvel CC: kbuild test robot , "kbuild-all@01.org" , "linux@armlinux.org.uk" , "aryabinin@virtuozzo.com" , "afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com" , "f.fainelli@gmail.com" , "labbott@redhat.com" , "kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com" , "mhocko@suse.com" , "cdall@linaro.org" , "marc.zyngier@arm.com" , "catalin.marinas@arm.com" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mawilcox@microsoft.com" , "tglx@linutronix.de" , "thgarnie@google.com" , "keescook@chromium.org" , "arnd@arndb.de" , "vladimir.murzin@arm.com" , "tixy@linaro.org" , "robin.murphy@arm.com" , "mingo@kernel.org" , "grygorii.strashko@linaro.org" , "glider@google.com" , "dvyukov@google.com" , "opendmb@gmail.com" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "kasan-dev@googlegroups.com" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , Jiazhenghua , Dailei , Zengweilin , Heshaoliang Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/11] Define the virtual space of KASan's shadow region Thread-Topic: [PATCH 04/11] Define the virtual space of KASan's shadow region Thread-Index: AQHTQmojF4blZnsX90GevfXlGaKSjKLit+AAgAOfd2D//453AIABXTkA Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:27:19 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20171011082227.20546-5-liuwenliang@huawei.com> <201710141957.mbxeZJHB%fengguang.wu@intel.com> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: zh-CN X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.57.90.243] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020202.59E5E924.00EF,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0, ip=169.254.12.139, so=2014-11-16 11:51:01, dmn=2013-03-21 17:37:32 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: fe954e4176a8e0d1bcdb2b552fc9173c Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by nfs id v9HBTatP012189 On 10/17/2017 12:40 AM, Abbott Liu wrote: > Ard Biesheuvel [ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org] wrote >This is unnecessary: > >ldr r1, =TASK_SIZE > >will be converted to a mov instruction by the assembler if the value of TASK_SIZE fits its 12-bit immediate field. > >So please remove the whole #ifdef, and just use ldr r1, =xxx Thanks for your review. The assembler on my computer don't convert ldr r1,=xxx into mov instruction. Here is the objdump for vmlinux: c0a3b100 <__irq_svc>: c0a3b100: e24dd04c sub sp, sp, #76 ; 0x4c c0a3b104: e31d0004 tst sp, #4 c0a3b108: 024dd004 subeq sp, sp, #4 c0a3b10c: e88d1ffe stm sp, {r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, sl, fp, ip} c0a3b110: e8900038 ldm r0, {r3, r4, r5} c0a3b114: e28d7030 add r7, sp, #48 ; 0x30 c0a3b118: e3e06000 mvn r6, #0 c0a3b11c: e28d204c add r2, sp, #76 ; 0x4c c0a3b120: 02822004 addeq r2, r2, #4 c0a3b124: e52d3004 push {r3} ; (str r3, [sp, #-4]!) c0a3b128: e1a0300e mov r3, lr c0a3b12c: e887007c stm r7, {r2, r3, r4, r5, r6} c0a3b130: e1a0972d lsr r9, sp, #14 c0a3b134: e1a09709 lsl r9, r9, #14 c0a3b138: e5990008 ldr r0, [r9, #8] ---c0a3b13c: e59f1054 ldr r1, [pc, #84] ; c0a3b198 <__irq_svc+0x98> //ldr r1, =TASK_SIZE c0a3b140: e5891008 str r1, [r9, #8] c0a3b144: e58d004c str r0, [sp, #76] ; 0x4c c0a3b148: ee130f10 mrc 15, 0, r0, cr3, cr0, {0} c0a3b14c: e58d0048 str r0, [sp, #72] ; 0x48 c0a3b150: e3a00051 mov r0, #81 ; 0x51 c0a3b154: ee030f10 mcr 15, 0, r0, cr3, cr0, {0} ---c0a3b158: e59f103c ldr r1, [pc, #60] ; c0a3b19c <__irq_svc+0x9c> //orginal irq_svc also used same instruction c0a3b15c: e1a0000d mov r0, sp c0a3b160: e28fe000 add lr, pc, #0 c0a3b164: e591f000 ldr pc, [r1] c0a3b168: e5998004 ldr r8, [r9, #4] c0a3b16c: e5990000 ldr r0, [r9] c0a3b170: e3380000 teq r8, #0 c0a3b174: 13a00000 movne r0, #0 c0a3b178: e3100002 tst r0, #2 c0a3b17c: 1b000007 blne c0a3b1a0 c0a3b180: e59d104c ldr r1, [sp, #76] ; 0x4c c0a3b184: e59d0048 ldr r0, [sp, #72] ; 0x48 c0a3b188: ee030f10 mcr 15, 0, r0, cr3, cr0, {0} c0a3b18c: e5891008 str r1, [r9, #8] c0a3b190: e16ff005 msr SPSR_fsxc, r5 c0a3b194: e8ddffff ldm sp, {r0, r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, r7, r8, r9, sl, fp, ip, sp, lr, pc}^ ---c0a3b198: b6e00000 .word 0xb6e00000 //TASK_SIZE:0xb6e00000 c0a3b19c: c0ccccf0 .word 0xc0ccccf0 Even "ldr r1, =TASK_SIZE" won't be converted to a mov instruction by some assembler, I also think it is better to remove the whole #ifdef because the influence of performance by ldr is very limited.