From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: Failure to build librseq on ppc
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 19:18:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200709001837.GD3598@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1968953502.5815.1594252883512.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 08:01:23PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > > #define RSEQ_ASM_OP_CMPEQ(var, expect, label) \
> > > LOAD_WORD "%%r17, %[" __rseq_str(var) "]\n\t" \
> >
> > The way this hardcodes r17 *will* break, btw. The compiler will not
> > likely want to use r17 as long as your code (after inlining etc.!) stays
> > small, but there is Murphy's law.
>
> r17 is in the clobber list, so it should be ok.
What protects r17 *after* this asm statement?
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-09 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-07 19:17 Failure to build librseq on ppc Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-08 0:59 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-08 12:27 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-07-08 23:53 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-09 0:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-09 0:18 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2020-07-09 13:43 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-09 17:37 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-09 17:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-09 17:56 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-09 20:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-09 20:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-09 20:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-08 12:33 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-08 14:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-08 14:21 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-07-08 14:32 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-08 16:11 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-07-09 0:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-09 0:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2020-07-09 13:33 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2020-07-09 17:31 ` Segher Boessenkool
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