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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com>
Cc: David Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com>,
	Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@recoil.org>,
	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ARM v8 3/4] mini-os: arm: build system
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:45:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416224705.5466.6.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG4opy8Uk87Hof5ufyJgfW-1dzxaKLq7_joGKYiGaTPBL6=tMw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 11:42 +0000, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On 26 October 2014 10:25, Thomas Leonard <talex5@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 26 October 2014 09:55, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> >> Thomas Leonard, le Sun 26 Oct 2014 09:46:09 +0000, a écrit :
> >>> Could you say a bit more about the linker problems you had?
> >>
> >> Really digging in the archives this time :)
> >>
> >> ia64-specific:
> >> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2008-03/msg00126.html
> >> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2008-12/msg00070.html
> >> x86_64-specific (missing red zone support)
> >> http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2008-02/msg00251.html
> >>
> >> So I guess it could be OK on arm, but you have to make sure that Mini-OS
> >> implements the whole ABI that gcc will use. Testing is not enough, I got
> >> hit by the red zone for instance.
> >
> > On ARM, we have a separate stack for the IRQ handler, so the red zone
> > at least shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Incidentally, why doesn't Mini-OS/x86 use a red zone? I assume there's
> a worthwhile performance benefit to it, and it would prevent subtle
> bugs when software is accidentally compiled for the normal ABI.

Redzones are incompatible with taking interrupts at the same privilege
level (which implies no stack switch, hence clobbering), and mini-os
runs everything at kernel privilege level.

Ian.


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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03  9:20 [PATCH ARM v8 0/4] mini-os: initial ARM support Thomas Leonard
2014-10-03  9:20 ` [PATCH ARM v8 1/4] mini-os: arm: time Thomas Leonard
2014-10-21 10:50   ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 14:07     ` [PATCH incomplete] xen: arm: wallclock support (incomplete, needs work/refactoring) Ian Campbell
2014-10-26  9:51     ` [PATCH ARM v8 1/4] mini-os: arm: time Thomas Leonard
2014-10-27 10:34       ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-13 16:29         ` Thomas Leonard
2014-11-14 10:29           ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-19 20:57             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2015-01-08 15:52     ` Ian Campbell
2015-01-08 15:58       ` Thomas Leonard
2015-01-08 16:04         ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-03  9:20 ` [PATCH ARM v8 2/4] mini-os: arm: interrupt controller Thomas Leonard
2014-10-21 11:00   ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 14:26     ` Julien Grall
2014-10-21 15:16       ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 15:22         ` Julien Grall
2014-10-21 15:35           ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 16:03             ` Julien Grall
2014-10-21 18:14               ` Anil Madhavapeddy
2014-10-21 19:18                 ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 21:54     ` Samuel Thibault
2014-10-22  9:03       ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-22 13:06         ` Julien Grall
2014-10-22 13:14           ` Samuel Thibault
2014-10-28 15:15           ` Thomas Leonard
2014-10-28 15:25             ` Julien Grall
2014-10-28 15:43               ` Thomas Leonard
2014-10-28 15:51                 ` Julien Grall
2014-11-14 10:22                   ` Thomas Leonard
2014-11-14 11:33                     ` Julien Grall
2014-11-14 11:42                       ` Ian Campbell
2014-11-14 11:48                         ` Julien Grall
2014-11-14 12:01                           ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-03  9:20 ` [PATCH ARM v8 3/4] mini-os: arm: build system Thomas Leonard
2014-10-21 11:44   ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-21 21:50     ` Samuel Thibault
2014-10-22  9:01       ` Ian Campbell
2014-10-22  9:59         ` Samuel Thibault
2014-10-26  9:46       ` Thomas Leonard
2014-10-26  9:55         ` Samuel Thibault
2014-10-26 10:25           ` Thomas Leonard
2014-11-17 11:42             ` Thomas Leonard
2014-11-17 11:45               ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2014-11-17 11:47               ` Andrew Cooper
2014-11-17 11:47               ` Samuel Thibault
2014-10-03  9:20 ` [PATCH ARM v8 4/4] mini-os: arm: show registers, stack and exception vector on fault Thomas Leonard

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