Re: [PATCH] bug.h: Work around GCC PR82365 in BUG()

Arnd Bergmann
2018-04-11T07:30:58Z

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 12:48 AM, James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:39:33PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> index 5d595cfdb2c4..66cfdad68f7e 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
>> @@ -205,6 +205,15 @@
>> #endif
>>
>> /*
>> + * calling noreturn functions, __builtin_unreachable() and __builtin_trap()
>> + * confuse the stack allocation in gcc, leading to overly large stack
>> + * frames, see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82365
>> + *
>> + * Adding an empty inline assembly before it works around the problem
>> + */
>> +#define barrier_before_unreachable() asm volatile("")
>> +
>> +/*
>> * Mark a position in code as unreachable. This can be used to
>> * suppress control flow warnings after asm blocks that transfer
>> * control elsewhere.
>> @@ -214,7 +223,11 @@
>> * unreleased. Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
>> */
>> #define unreachable() \
>> - do { annotate_unreachable(); __builtin_unreachable(); } while (0)
>> + do { \
>> + annotate_unreachable(); \
>> + barrier_before_unreachable(); \
>> + __builtin_unreachable(); \
>> + } while (0)
>
> Unfortunately this breaks microMIPS builds (e.g. MIPS
> micro32r2_defconfig and micro32r2el_defconfig) on gcc 7.2, due to the
> lack of .insn in the asm volatile. Because of the
> __builtin_unreachable() there is no code following it. Without the empty
> asm the compiler will apparently put the .insn there automatically, but
> with the empty asm it doesn't. Therefore the assembler won't treat an
> immediately preceeding label as pointing at 16-bit microMIPS
> instructions which need the ISA bit set, i.e. bit 0 of the address.
> This causes assembler errors since the branch target is treated as a
> different ISA mode:
>
> arch/mips/mm/dma-default.s:3265: Error: branch to a symbol in another ISA mode
> arch/mips/mm/dma-default.s:5027: Error: branch to a symbol in another ISA mode

Ok, I see.

> Due to a compiler bug on gcc 4.9.2 -> somewhere before 7.2, Paul
> submitted these patches a while back:
> https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13360/
> https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13361/
>
> Your patch (suitably fixed for microMIPS) would I imagine fix that issue
> too (it certainly fixes the resulting link error on microMIPS builds
> with an old toolchain).
>
> Before I forward port those patches to add .insn for MIPS, is that sort
> of approach (an arch specific asm/compiler-gcc.h to allow MIPS to
> override barrier_before_unreachable()) an acceptable fix?

That sounds fine to me. However, I would suggest making that
asm/compiler.h instead of asm/compiler-gcc.h, so we can also
use the same file to include workarounds for clang if needed.

Arnd