Re: Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?

[Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> In the boot decompressor for the kernel in the image Iouri provided, I
>>     
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> 32bit or 64bit image?
>
>   
>> As you can plainly see, the call to memcpy (which is redefined in
>> boot/compressed/misc.c) is made using stack calling convention.
>> Unfortunately, the compiler generated the memcpy function itself using
>> regparm(3) convention.  I am guessing this happened because a leftover
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> I can't find any here grepping .i files and includes. None of the memcpy
> prototypes in include have a __fastcall
>
> Are you sure this still happens in mainline?
>
> When I look at my scroll it also looks correct:
>
>       c0:       0f af f8                imul   %eax,%edi
>       c3:       01 c0                   add    %eax,%eax
>       c5:       89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
>       c7:       01 f2                   add    %esi,%edx
>       c9:       89 45 f0                mov    %eax,0xfffffff0(%ebp)
>       cc:       89 f0                   mov    %esi,%eax
>       ce:       89 f9                   mov    %edi,%ecx
>       d0:       e8 7b ff ff ff          call   50 <memcpy>
>
>
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>> Does anyone recall compiler problems (I noticed this VM was booting a
>> 64-bit kernel, 
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> Ok 64bit, that was 32bit above. 
>
> Since some time the decompressor is 64bit and 64bit always uses 
> regparms. 64bit Scroll is ok too:
>
>      92:       0f af eb                imul   %ebx,%ebp
>       95:       01 db                   add    %ebx,%ebx
>       97:       48 63 f3                movslq %ebx,%rsi
>       9a:       4c 01 ee                add    %r13,%rsi
>       9d:       89 ea                   mov    %ebp,%edx
>       9f:       e8 9c ff ff ff          callq  40 <memcpy>
>
>
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>> but the decompressor was 32-bit code, 
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> That must be a old kernel.
>
> Can you people please verify this all still happens with a mainline or
> 2.6.22 kernel? 
>
>   
>> so perhaps at some  
>> time the 64-bit makefile or toolchain for Linux had some kind of
>> compiler bug).
>>     
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> I'm not aware of any such bugs.
>   

It was 2.6.21.4, so it is fairly recent, but with 32-bit decompress 
stage.  GCC was 4.2.0.

Sounds like a gcc bug, to me.

Zach