From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
musl@lists.openwall.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
libc-dev@lists.llvm.org
Subject: Re: [musl] Powerpc Linux 'scv' system call ABI proposal take 2
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 20:48:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200417014831.GL26902@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200417003442.GD11469@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 08:34:42PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 08:12:19PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > > I think my choice would be just making the inline syscall be a single
> > > > call insn to an asm source file that out-of-lines the loading of TOC
> > > > pointer and call through it or branch based on hwcap so that it's not
> > > > repeated all over the place.
> > >
> > > I don't know how problematic control flow out of an inline asm is on
> > > POWER. But this is basically the -moutline-atomics approach.
> >
> > Control flow out of inline asm (other than with "asm goto") is not
> > allowed at all, just like on any other target (and will not work in
> > practice, either -- just like on any other target). But the suggestion
> > was to use actual assembler code, not inline asm?
>
> Calling it control flow out of inline asm is something of a misnomer.
> The enclosing state is not discarded or altered; the asm statement
> exits normally, reaching the next instruction in the enclosing
> block/function as soon as the call from the asm statement returns,
> with all register/clobber constraints satisfied.
Ah. That should always Just Work, then -- our ABIs guarantee you can.
> Control flow out of inline asm would be more like longjmp, and it can
> be valid -- for instance, you can implement coroutines this way
> (assuming you switch stack correctly) or do longjmp this way (jumping
> to the location saved by setjmp). But it's not what'd be happening
> here.
Yeah, you cannot do that in C, not without making assumptions about what
machine code the compiler generates. GCC explicitly disallows it, too:
'asm' statements may not perform jumps into other 'asm' statements,
only to the listed GOTOLABELS. GCC's optimizers do not know about
other jumps; therefore they cannot take account of them when
deciding how to optimize.
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-17 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-15 21:45 Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-15 22:55 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2020-04-16 0:16 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 0:48 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 2:24 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 2:35 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 2:53 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 3:03 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 3:41 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-16 20:18 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 9:58 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-04-20 0:27 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 1:29 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-20 2:08 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 21:17 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-04-21 9:57 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 15:21 ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-04-16 15:40 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 4:48 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 15:35 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 16:42 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 16:52 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 23:02 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-04-17 0:34 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-17 1:48 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-04-17 8:34 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-16 14:16 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-16 15:37 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 17:50 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-16 17:59 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:18 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-16 18:31 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:44 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-16 18:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-20 0:46 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 1:10 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 1:34 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-20 2:32 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 4:09 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-20 4:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-20 17:27 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-22 6:18 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22 6:29 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-23 2:36 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-23 12:13 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-23 16:18 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-23 16:35 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-23 16:43 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-23 17:15 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-23 17:42 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-25 3:40 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-25 4:52 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-25 3:30 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-21 12:28 ` David Laight
2020-04-21 14:39 ` Rich Felker
2020-04-21 15:00 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-21 15:31 ` David Laight
2020-04-22 6:54 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22 7:15 ` [musl] " Florian Weimer
2020-04-22 7:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2020-04-22 8:11 ` Florian Weimer
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