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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: khalid.aziz@oracle.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity)
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:42:54 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170117.144254.1482863576417019498.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <767310a9-d3bd-9721-2d20-ce2c60cddd06@oracle.com>

From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:32:46 -0700

> On 01/16/2017 09:39 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:12:54 -0700
>>
>>> +		__asm__ __volatile__(
>>> +			".word 0xa1438000\n\t"	/* rd  %mcdper, %l0 */
>>
>> Just use "rd %%asr14, %0" this way you don't have to play all of these
>> fixed register games which kill the code generated by gcc.  If you
>> forcefully clobber a windowed register like %l0 it means the function
>> being emitted can never be a leaf function, tail calls are no longer
>> allowed, etc.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> "rd %%asr14, %0" should work but does not due to bugs in assembler -
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-03/msg00302.html>, and
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2016-03/msg00303.html>. These bugs
> were fixed in binutils 2.27 but older assemblers will cause kernel
> build to fail. Using byte coded equivalent is the safest option.

Fair enough.

Then please at least use %g1 or another usable global register to
avoid at least some of the problems I mentioned.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-17 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-11 16:12 [PATCH v4 0/4] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7 Khalid Aziz
2017-01-11 16:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/4] mm: Add function to support extra actions on swap in/out Khalid Aziz
2017-01-11 16:56   ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-11 17:15     ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-11 16:12 ` [PATCH v4 4/4] sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity) Khalid Aziz
2017-01-17  4:39   ` David Miller
2017-01-17 19:32     ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-17 19:42       ` David Miller [this message]
2017-01-17 20:12         ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-18  0:14     ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-11 16:33 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7 Dave Hansen
2017-01-11 16:56   ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-11 18:13     ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-11 18:50       ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-11 19:11         ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-12  0:22           ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-12  0:49             ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-12 16:50               ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-12 17:53                 ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-13  0:22                   ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-13  1:31                     ` Rob Gardner
2017-01-13 14:48                       ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-13 15:29                         ` Rob Gardner
2017-01-13 15:59                           ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-13 16:08                           ` Dave Hansen
2017-01-13 17:36                             ` Rob Gardner
2017-01-17  4:47       ` David Miller
2017-01-17 21:43         ` Khalid Aziz
2017-01-17  4:42   ` David Miller

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