Re: [PATCH] arm: Silence gcc warnings about arch ABI drift

From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Calvin Owens <jcalvinowens@gmail.com>,
	Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: Silence gcc warnings about arch ABI drift
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 09:26:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZdMe24xN1Ej4QoVU@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431dd956-ad31-4da8-ad42-34f7380824bb@app.fastmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 07:21:11AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I think these should be addressed in bcachefs instead.
> While it's not the fault of bcachefs that the calling
> convention changed between gcc versions, have a look at
> the actual structure layout:
> 
> struct bch_val {
>         __u64           __nothing[0];
> };
> struct bpos {
>         /*
>          * Word order matches machine byte order - btree code treats a bpos as a
>          * single large integer, for search/comparison purposes
>          *
>          * Note that wherever a bpos is embedded in another on disk data
>          * structure, it has to be byte swabbed when reading in metadata that
>          * wasn't written in native endian order:
>          */
> #if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__
>         __u32           snapshot;
>         __u64           offset;
>         __u64           inode;
> #elif __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__
>         __u64           inode;
>         __u64           offset;         /* Points to end of extent - sectors */
>         __u32           snapshot;
> #else
> #error edit for your odd byteorder.
> #endif
> } __packed
> struct bch_backpointer {
>         struct bch_val          v;
>         __u8                    btree_id;
>         __u8                    level;
>         __u8                    data_type;
>         __u64                   bucket_offset:40;
>         __u32                   bucket_len;
>         struct bpos             pos;
> } __packed __aligned(8);
> 
> This is not something that should ever be passed by value
> into a function.

+1 - bcachefs definitely needs fixing. Passing all that as an argument
not only means that it has to be read into registers, but also when
accessing members, it has to be extracted from those registers as well.

Passing that by argument is utterly insane.

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