Re: [RFC PATCH v1 1/2] selftests/x86: sysret_rip: Handle syscall in a FRED system

Andrew Cooper
2023-02-15T10:29:57Z

On 15/02/2023 9:17 am, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 26/01/2023 8:08 pm, Ammar Faizi wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 05:40:23PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> So as per Andrew's comment, add:
>>>
>>> register void * rsp asm("%rsp");
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> "+r" (rsp) /* clobber the redzone */
>>>
>>> ... as the right way to avoid redzone problems.
>> I played with this more. I found something wrong with this. This doesn't
>> work for me. The compiler still uses red zone despite I use "+r" (rsp).
>>
>> What did I do wrong?
> Well this is a fine mess...
>
> https://godbolt.org/z/MaPM7s8qr does the right thing, but is now
> contrary to the prior discussion regarding calls in asm, which concluded
> that the "+r"(rsp) was the way to go.
>
> Furthermore GCC regressed in 9.0 and emits:
>
>   warning: listing the stack pointer register 'rsp' in a clobber list is
> deprecated [-Wdeprecated]
>
> which might be the intention of the developers, but is wrong seeing as
> this is the only way to say "I modify the redzone" to the compiler...

I've opened https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108799

~Andrew