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From: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Joe Simmons-Talbott via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Joe Simmons-Talbott <josimmon@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] aarch64: Set the syscall register right before doing the syscall.
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:15:28 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8163631-7040-a9ff-2e06-c43ded34ebb7@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6tmil4j.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>



On 11/04/23 10:50, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> * Joe Simmons-Talbott via Libc-alpha:
> 
>>    ({ long _sys_result;						\
>>       {								\
>>         LOAD_ARGS_##nr (args)					\
>>         register long _x8 asm ("x8") = (name);			\
>> +       if (__builtin_constant_p(name))				\
>> +         asm volatile ("mov	x8, " MSTR(name) ";"		\
>> +                       : /* no output */ : "i" (name) : "x8");	\
>>         asm volatile ("svc	0	// syscall " # name     \
>>  		     : "=r" (_x0) : "r"(_x8) ASM_ARGS_##nr : "memory");	\
>>         _sys_result = _x0;					\
> 
> I think you should do this in a single assembler statement, load the
> constant only once.

Is this required because compiler is free to reorganize the argument
list? I think it should me it clear on the commit message.

Using a single assembler would require two inline asm, something like:

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sysdep.h                                                                                            index e94d1703ad..2a128bb72d 100644                                                                                                                                                         --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sysdep.h                                                                                                                                              +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sysdep.h                                                                                                                                              @@ -172,9 +172,19 @@
   ({ long _sys_result;                                         \
      {                                                         \
        LOAD_ARGS_##nr (args)                                   \
-       register long _x8 asm ("x8") = (name);                  \
-       asm volatile ("svc      0       // syscall " # name     \
-                    : "=r" (_x0) : "r"(_x8) ASM_ARGS_##nr : "memory"); \
+       if (__builtin_constant_p (name))                                \
+        asm volatile ("mov     x8, %1\n"                       \
+                      "svc     0       // syscall " # name     \
+                      : "=r" (_x0)                             \
+                      : "i" (name) ASM_ARGS_##nr               \
+                      : "x8", "memory");                       \
+       else                                                    \
+         {                                                     \
+          register long _x8 asm ("x8") = (name);               \
+          asm volatile ("svc      0       // syscall " # name  \
+                        : "=r" (_x0)                           \
+                        : "r"(_x8) ASM_ARGS_##nr : "memory");  \
+        }                                                      \
        _sys_result = _x0;                                      \
      }                                                         \
      _sys_result; })

Which really makes me doubt if this extra complexity is really necessary...


  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-11 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-11 13:30 [PATCH 0/2] x86_64: aarch64: Set call number just before syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-11 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86_64: Set the syscall register right before doing the syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 22:35   ` Noah Goldstein
2023-04-17 22:36     ` Noah Goldstein
2023-04-11 13:30 ` [PATCH 2/2] aarch64: " Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-11 13:50   ` Florian Weimer
2023-04-11 14:15     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto [this message]
2023-04-11 15:43       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2023-04-11 16:03       ` Florian Weimer
2023-04-11 16:39         ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-04-12 15:27           ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-12 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] x86_64: aarch64: Set call number just before syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-12 21:11   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] x86_64: Set the syscall register right before doing the syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-12 21:11   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] aarch64: " Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 15:34 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] x86_64: aarch64: Set call number just before syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 15:34   ` [PATCH v3 1/2] x86_64: Set the syscall register right before doing the syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 15:54     ` H.J. Lu
2023-04-17 16:00       ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 18:38         ` H.J. Lu
2023-04-17 15:34   ` [PATCH v3 2/2] aarch64: " Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 21:20 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] x86_64: aarch64: Set call number just before syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 21:20   ` [PATCH v4 1/2] x86_64: Set the syscall register right before doing the syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-17 21:20   ` [PATCH v4 2/2] aarch64: " Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-18 12:57     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2023-04-18 19:33       ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-19 13:58 ` [PATCH v5 0/3] x86_64: aarch64: Set call number just before syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-19 13:58   ` [PATCH v5 1/3] x86_64: Set the syscall register right before doing the syscall Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-19 15:35     ` H.J. Lu
2023-04-19 15:48       ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-19 13:58   ` [PATCH v5 2/3] aarch64: " Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-19 14:56     ` Szabolcs Nagy
2023-04-19 15:21       ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-04-19 13:58   ` [PATCH v5 3/3] nptl: Use direct syscall numbers in setxid Joe Simmons-Talbott

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