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From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Olivier Hainque <hainque@adacore.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: rs6000 stack_tie mishap again
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F41B44.1080003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C2CF6AE-FEBC-40B8-B055-F51246F8854B@adacore.com>

On 03/24/2016 02:17 AM, Olivier Hainque wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> So, aside from the dependency issue which needs to be fixed somehow, I
>>> think it would make sense to consider using a strong blockage mecanism in
>>> expand_epilogue.
>>
>> That's what we both said here
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-11/msg01180.html
>>
>> and David agreed too
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-11/msg01842.html
>>
>> but if you can have the alias analysis changes accepted that would be
>> even better.
>
> I'd really like to come to a resolution we're confident is robust,
> because these are really very nasty bugs.
The robust solution is to have a scheduling barrier just before the 
point where the stack is deallocated.

The alternative some folks have suggested would be for the generic parts 
of the compiler to add the scheduling barrier before the stack pointer 
adjustment.  I wouldn't object to that.


Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-24 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-23 16:24 Olivier Hainque
2016-03-24  7:51 ` Alan Modra
2016-03-24 10:32   ` Olivier Hainque
2016-03-24 17:00     ` Jeff Law [this message]
2016-03-28 19:58   ` Richard Henderson
2016-04-08  8:25     ` Olivier Hainque
2016-04-08 15:37       ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-04-08 16:01         ` Olivier Hainque
2016-04-11 10:15     ` Olivier Hainque
2016-04-14 15:47       ` Andreas Krebbel
2016-04-14 16:50         ` Jeff Law
2016-04-14 17:10           ` Olivier Hainque
2016-04-15  4:37             ` Andreas Krebbel
2016-04-15  7:43               ` Olivier Hainque
2016-04-15 16:42             ` Jeff Law
2016-04-15 17:05               ` Olivier Hainque
2016-04-15 17:26                 ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-04-14 22:42       ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-04-15 15:17         ` Olivier Hainque
2016-03-28  4:48 ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-03-28 11:23   ` Olivier Hainque
2016-03-28 12:44     ` Segher Boessenkool
2016-03-30  9:40       ` Olivier Hainque
2016-03-30 15:15         ` Alan Modra
2016-03-23 17:42 David Edelsohn
2016-03-24  8:17 ` Alan Modra
2016-03-24 10:17   ` Olivier Hainque

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