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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	christophe leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
	kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: workaround clang codegen bug in dcbz
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:24:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0_ovcX9tOo1UQ3_1UmM=+A2X=yErw27i2pHOj4XD40-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190730161637.GP31406@gate.crashing.org>

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:16 PM Segher Boessenkool
<segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 04:30:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 3:49 PM Segher Boessenkool
> > <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 09:34:28AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > Upon a second look, I think the issue is that the "Z" is an input argument
> > > > when it should be an output. clang decides that it can make a copy of the
> > > > input and pass that into the inline asm. This is not the most efficient
> > > > way, but it seems entirely correct according to the constraints.
> > >
> > > Most dcb* (and all icb*) do not change the memory pointed to.  The
> > > memory is an input here, logically as well, and that is obvious.
> >
> > Ah, right. I had only thought of dcbz here, but you are right that using
> > an output makes little sense for the others.
> >
> > readl() is another example where powerpc currently uses "Z" for an
> > input, which illustrates this even better.
>
> in_le32 and friends?  Yeah, huh.  If LLVM copies that to the stack as
> well, its (not byte reversing) read will be atomic just fine, so things
> will still work correctly.

byteorder is fine, the problem I was thinking of is when moving the load/store
instructions around the barriers that synchronize with DMA, or turning
them into different-size accesses. Changing two consecutive 16-bit mmio reads
into an unaligned 32-bit read will rarely have the intended effect ;-)

       Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-30 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-29 20:25 [PATCH] powerpc: workaround clang codegen bug in dcbz Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-29 20:32 ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-29 20:45   ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-29 20:47     ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-29 20:49       ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-07-29 21:52   ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-30  7:34     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-30 11:17       ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-09 18:21         ` [PATCH] powerpc: fix inline asm constraints for dcbz Nick Desaulniers
2019-08-09 18:28           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-09 20:03             ` Christophe Leroy
2019-08-09 20:12               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-09 22:03                 ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-08-09 22:10                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-09 22:00               ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-09 22:03               ` [PATCH v3] Revert "powerpc: slightly improve cache helpers" Nick Desaulniers
2019-08-10  9:09                 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-08-09 21:55             ` [PATCH] powerpc: fix inline asm constraints for dcbz Segher Boessenkool
2019-08-09 20:36           ` Nathan Chancellor
2019-07-30 13:48       ` [PATCH] powerpc: workaround clang codegen bug in dcbz Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-30 14:30         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-30 16:16           ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-30 17:07             ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-30 18:24               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-07-30 18:24             ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2019-07-30 19:35               ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-07-30  5:31   ` Christophe Leroy

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