From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <alviro.iskandar@gnuweeb.org>,
Nugraha <richiisei@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
GNU/Weeb Mailing List <gwml@vger.gnuweeb.org>,
"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
"llvm@lists.linux.dev" <llvm@lists.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/8] tools/nolibc: i386: Implement syscall with 6 arguments
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 08:10:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220323071001.GA14186@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2eba5687-6b63-ceb2-3fbd-3d236727ea11@gnuweeb.org>
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 01:29:39PM +0700, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> On 3/22/22 8:37 PM, David Laight wrote:
> > dunno, 'asm' register variables are rather more horrid and
> > should probably only be used (for asm statements) when there aren't
> > suitable register constraints.
> >
> > (I'm sure there is a comment about that in the gcc docs.)
>
> ^ Hey David, yes you're right, that is very interesting...
>
> I hit a GCC bug when playing with syscall6() implementation here.
>
> Using register variables for all inputs for syscall6() causing GCC 11.2
> stuck in an endless loop with 100% CPU usage. Reproducible with several
> versions of GCC.
>
> In GCC 6.3, the syscall6() implementation above yields ICE (Internal
> Compiler Error):
> ```
> <source>: In function '__sys_mmap':
> <source>:35:1: error: unable to find a register to spill
Now I'm pretty sure that it was the issue I faced when trying long ago,
I remember this error message before I found it wiser to give up.
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-23 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-22 10:21 [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Add dynamic memory allocator support for nolibc Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/8] tools/nolibc: x86-64: Update System V ABI document link Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/8] tools/nolibc: Remove .global _start from the entry point code Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 17:09 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-22 17:25 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 17:30 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-22 17:58 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 18:07 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-22 18:24 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 18:38 ` Nick Desaulniers
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/8] tools/nolibc: i386: Implement syscall with 6 arguments Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 10:57 ` David Laight
2022-03-22 11:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 11:39 ` David Laight
2022-03-22 12:02 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 12:07 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 12:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 13:26 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 13:34 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 13:37 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 13:39 ` David Laight
2022-03-22 13:41 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 13:45 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 13:54 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 13:56 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 14:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 13:37 ` David Laight
2022-03-22 14:47 ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2022-03-22 15:11 ` David Laight
2022-03-23 6:29 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-23 6:32 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-23 7:10 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 4/8] tools/nolibc/sys: Implement `mmap()` and `munmap()` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 5/8] tools/nolibc/types: Implement `offsetof()` and `container_of()` macro Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 6/8] tools/nolibc/stdlib: Implement `malloc()`, `calloc()`, `realloc()` and `free()` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 11:52 ` David Laight
2022-03-22 12:18 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 12:36 ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan
2022-03-22 12:42 ` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 12:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 7/8] tools/nolibc/string: Implement `strnlen()` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 10:21 ` [RFC PATCH v2 8/8] tools/include/string: Implement `strdup()` and `strndup()` Ammar Faizi
2022-03-22 11:27 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] Add dynamic memory allocator support for nolibc Willy Tarreau
2022-03-22 12:43 ` Ammar Faizi
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