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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-04-08 20:38:30 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-22 23:12:11 +0200
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parentLinux 6.9 (diff)
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clang: work around asm input constraint problems
Work around clang problems with asm constraints that have multiple possibilities, particularly "g" and "rm". Clang seems to turn inputs like that into the most generic form, which is the memory input - but to make matters worse, clang won't even use a possible original memory location, but will spill the value to stack, and use the stack for the asm input. See https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571#issuecomment-980933442 for some explanation of why clang has this strange behavior, but the end result is that "g" and "rm" really end up generating horrid code. Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571 Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler-clang.h10
-rw-r--r--include/linux/compiler_types.h9
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
index 49feac0162a5..4c1a39dcb624 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler-clang.h
@@ -118,3 +118,13 @@
#define __diag_ignore_all(option, comment) \
__diag_clang(13, ignore, option)
+
+/*
+ * clang has horrible behavior with "g" or "rm" constraints for asm
+ * inputs, turning them into something worse than "m". Avoid using
+ * constraints with multiple possible uses (but "ir" seems to be ok):
+ *
+ * https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/20571
+ */
+#define ASM_INPUT_G "ir"
+#define ASM_INPUT_RM "r"
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler_types.h b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
index 8f8236317d5b..f82bdac63961 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler_types.h
@@ -391,6 +391,15 @@ struct ftrace_likely_data {
#define asm_goto_output(x...) asm volatile goto(x)
#endif
+/*
+ * Clang has trouble with constraints with multiple
+ * alternative behaviors (mainly "g" and "rm").
+ */
+#ifndef ASM_INPUT_G
+ #define ASM_INPUT_G "g"
+ #define ASM_INPUT_RM "rm"
+#endif
+
#ifdef CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_INLINE
#define asm_inline asm __inline
#else