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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Yuyang Du <yuyang.du@intel.com>,
	Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	bsegall@google.com, morten.rasmussen@arm.com, pjt@google.com,
	steve.muckle@linaro.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel@kyup.com
Subject: Re: Divide-by-zero in post_init_entity_util_avg
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:23:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160617082337.GM30154@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5763B1D8.1010707@virtuozzo.com>

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:16:24AM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> > I suppose instead we'd want something like:
> > 
> > 	tmp = READ_ONCE(*ptr);
> > 	if (tmp > val)
> > 	  tmp -= val;
> > 	else
> > 	  tmp = 0;
> > 	WRITE_ONCE(*ptr, tmp);
> > 
> > In order to generate:
> > 
> >   xchg   %rax,0xa0(%r13)
> >   mov    0x78(%r13),%rcx
> >   sub    %rax,%rcx
> >   cmovae %r15,%rcx
> >   mov    %rcx,0x78(%r13)
> > 
> > however, GCC isn't smart enough and generates:
> > 
> >   xchg   %rax,0x98(%r13)
> >   mov    0x70(%r13),%rsi
> >   mov    %rsi,%rcx
> >   sub    %rax,%rcx
> >   cmp    %rsi,%rax
> >   cmovae %r15,%rcx
> >   mov    %rcx,0x70(%r13)
> > 
> > Doing a CMP with the _same_ values it does the SUB with, resulting in
> > exactly the same CC values.
> > 
> 
> FYI - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3507  (Reported:	2001-07-01)
> 

I found this one when I was googling yesterday:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30315

But yes, it seems this is a 'known' issue.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-17  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09  9:01 Divide-by-zero in post_init_entity_util_avg Chris Wilson
2016-06-09  1:33 ` Yuyang Du
2016-06-09 13:07   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-12 22:25     ` Yuyang Du
2016-06-14 11:25     ` [tip:sched/core] sched/fair: Fix post_init_entity_util_avg() serialization tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-16  8:50     ` Divide-by-zero in post_init_entity_util_avg Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-16 12:25       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-16 16:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-17  8:16         ` Andrey Ryabinin
2016-06-17  8:23           ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-06-17  9:19         ` [PATCH] sched/fair: Fix cfs_rq avg tracking underflow Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-17  2:01           ` Yuyang Du
2016-06-20 13:24           ` [tip:sched/urgent] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2016-06-09 10:29 ` Divide-by-zero in post_init_entity_util_avg Peter Zijlstra

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