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From: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
To: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>,
	Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org>,
	    Li Bin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>,
	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	    Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>,
	richard.earnshaw@arm.com,     andrew.wafaa@arm.com,
	szabolcs.nagy@arm.com,     masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com,
	geoff@infradead.org, guohanjun@huawei.com,
	    felix.yang@huawei.com, jiangjiji@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [AArch64] support -mfentry feature for arm64
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 06:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.20.1604190936040.5544@monopod.intra.ispras.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160419062845.GC13600@linaro.org>

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > > But if Szabolcs' two-instruction 
> > > sequence in the adjacent subthread is sufficient, this is moot.
> > 
> > .  It can also be solved by having just one NOP after the function label, 
> > and a number of them before, then no thread can be in the nop pad.  That 
> > seems to indicate that GCC should not try to be too clever and simply 
> > leave the specified number of nops before and after the function label, 
> > leaving safety measures to the patching infrastructure.
> 
> I don't get this idea very well.
> How can the instructions *before* a function label be executed
> after branching into this function?

The single nop after the function label is changed to a short backwards branch
to the instructions just before the function label.

As a result, the last instruction in the pad would have to become a short
forward branch jumping over the backwards branch described above, to the first
real instruction of the function.

Alexander

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14  8:13 Li Bin
2016-03-14  8:12 ` Li Bin
2016-04-14 13:08 ` Maxim Kuvyrkov
2016-04-14 13:15   ` Andrew Pinski
2016-04-14 15:58     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-18 13:26       ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-18 13:34         ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2016-04-18 13:44           ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-18 13:57             ` Ramana Radhakrishnan
2016-04-18 14:03               ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-18 14:31         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-18 15:54           ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-19  6:46             ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-04-19  6:13       ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-04-19  6:44         ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-20  0:33           ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-04-20 10:02             ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-15 15:40   ` Michael Matz
2016-04-15 17:29     ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-17 15:06       ` Alexander Monakov
2016-04-18 12:12         ` Michael Matz
2016-04-19  6:26           ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-04-19  6:39             ` Alexander Monakov [this message]
2016-04-20  1:23               ` AKASHI Takahiro
2016-04-20 16:45                 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-04-19 16:03           ` Torsten Duwe
2016-04-18 14:32       ` Andrew Haley
2016-04-18 17:13         ` Michael Matz
2016-04-18 17:17           ` Andrew Haley
2016-04-18 17:34             ` Michael Matz
2016-04-19  8:00               ` Andrew Haley
2016-04-19 13:19                 ` Michael Matz
2016-04-19 13:25                   ` Andrew Haley
2016-04-19 14:38                     ` Pedro Alves
2016-04-19 15:02                       ` Andrew Haley
2016-04-19  6:08   ` AKASHI Takahiro
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2015-10-22 13:24 Li Bin
2015-10-22 13:53 ` Marcus Shawcroft

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