From: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
<x86@kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: work around clang IAS bug referencing __force_order
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 17:09:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwvOdmA29WzTd7APsQCsG_a=NVWuR53Z2h8NTLza5sisnV2PA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200527135329.1172644-1-arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:53 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> When using the clang integrated assembler, we get a reference
> to __force_order that should normally get ignored in a few
> rare cases:
>
> ERROR: modpost: "__force_order" [drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.ko] undefined!
>
> Add a 'static' definition so any file in which this happens can
> have a local copy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Hi Arnd,
Looks like
$ ARCH=i386 make CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 -j71
defconfig+CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6=m
is the simplest reproducer.
If I run
$ llvm-readelf -s drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.o | grep __force_order
39: 00000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND __force_order
we can indeed see an undefined reference to __force_order.
If I build the .s file via
$ ARCH=i386 make CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 -j71 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.s
the only reference I see to __force_order is:
979 .addrsig_sym __force_order
which is created by Clang's implicit -faddr-sig. If I disable that
for this file via:
```diff
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile b/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
index f1b7e3dd6e5d..87d655d5af49 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ) +=
acpi-cpufreq.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8) += powernow-k8.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_PCC_CPUFREQ) += pcc-cpufreq.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6) += powernow-k6.o
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
+CFLAGS_powernow-k6.o += -fno-addrsig
+endif
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7) += powernow-k7.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LONGHAUL) += longhaul.o
obj-$(CONFIG_X86_E_POWERSAVER) += e_powersaver.o
```
then the module links without error, and we get no hits for
__force_order from llvm-readelf -s. This makes me think there may be
a bug in Clang generating address significance tables for global
variables that are otherwise unused, resulting in such linkage
failures. +pcc@ for that.
I ran a creduce job on drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.i where I'd compile
twice, one with the implicit default value of -faddr-sig and look for
the undefined __force_order, and again with -fno-addrsig and ensure
there was no undefined __force_order, which coughed up:
extern int __force_order;
int a(void) { asm("" : "=m"(__force_order)); return 0; }
as the bare minimum for an address significant table.
https://godbolt.org/z/cjfaqM
I'll bet this is coming from the call to read_cr0() in
powernow_k6_set_cpu_multiplier(). If __force_order is defined in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c, then I'm not sure it's a good
idea to build drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c as a kernel module
(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6=m) vs statically compiled in. Wouldn't
__force_order need to be EXPORT'ed for kernel modules to use it
safely?
> ---
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 2 ++
> arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> index c8862696a47b..8595194cea41 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
> * It is not referenced from the code, but GCC < 5 with -fPIE would fail
> * due to an undefined symbol. Define it to make these ancient GCCs work.
> */
> +#ifndef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
> unsigned long __force_order;
> +#endif
>
> #define BIOS_START_MIN 0x20000U /* 128K, less than this is insane */
> #define BIOS_START_MAX 0x9f000U /* 640K, absolute maximum */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> index 82436cb04ccf..7081e587c1ea 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> @@ -16,8 +16,15 @@
> * A memory clobber would solve the problem, but would prevent reordering of
> * all loads stores around it, which can hurt performance. Solution is to
> * use a variable and mimic reads and writes to it to enforce serialization
> + *
> + * Clang sometimes fails to kill the reference to the dummy variable, so
> + * provide an actual copy.
> */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
> +static unsigned long __force_order;
> +#else
> extern unsigned long __force_order;
> +#endif
>
> void native_write_cr0(unsigned long val);
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
> --
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-04 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-27 13:53 [PATCH] x86: work around clang IAS bug referencing __force_order Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-01 11:50 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-06 22:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-07 7:03 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-04 0:09 ` Nick Desaulniers [this message]
2020-08-14 17:29 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-14 21:19 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-14 22:57 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15 0:26 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-15 3:28 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-15 8:23 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-15 10:46 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-15 14:39 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-16 9:37 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-06 22:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-13 0:12 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-13 8:49 ` David Laight
2020-08-13 17:20 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-13 17:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-13 17:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-08-13 18:09 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-13 18:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-08-20 10:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-20 13:06 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 0:37 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-21 23:04 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-21 23:16 ` Nick Desaulniers
2020-08-21 23:25 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-22 0:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-08-22 3:55 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-22 8:41 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-08-22 9:23 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-22 9:51 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-08-22 10:26 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-08-22 10:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-08-22 18:17 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-08-22 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-22 23:10 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-23 0:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-23 1:16 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-23 21:25 ` [PATCH] x86/asm: Replace __force_order with memory clobber Arvind Sankar
2020-08-24 17:50 ` Nathan Chancellor
2020-08-24 19:13 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-08-25 15:19 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-08-25 15:21 ` Sedat Dilek
2020-09-02 15:33 ` [PATCH v2] " Arvind Sankar
2020-09-02 15:58 ` David Laight
2020-09-02 16:14 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-02 16:08 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-02 20:26 ` David Laight
2020-09-02 17:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-09-02 17:36 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-02 18:19 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-09-02 18:24 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-09-02 23:21 ` [PATCH v3] " Arvind Sankar
2020-09-03 2:17 ` Kees Cook
2020-09-03 5:34 ` Miguel Ojeda
2020-09-30 20:50 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-01 10:12 ` [tip: x86/asm] x86/asm: Replace __force_order with a " tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-10-13 9:30 ` tip-bot2 for Arvind Sankar
2020-08-22 21:17 ` [PATCH] x86: work around clang IAS bug referencing __force_order Arvind Sankar
2020-08-23 13:31 ` David Laight
2020-09-08 22:25 ` Pavel Machek
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