linux/arch/powerpc
Linus Torvalds 4356e9f841 work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs
We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c323 ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

but the same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <quic_apinski@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
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boot powerpc/fsl: Fix fsl,tmu-calibration to match the schema 2023-12-19 21:53:56 +11:00
configs Networking changes for 6.8. 2024-01-11 10:07:29 -08:00
crypto crypto: p10-aes-gcm - Avoid -Wstringop-overflow warnings 2023-12-01 18:03:26 +08:00
include work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
kernel work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
kexec Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
kvm Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
lib powerpc/lib: Validate size for vector operations 2023-11-27 22:06:19 +11:00
math-emu
mm Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which 2024-01-09 11:18:47 -08:00
net powerpc/bpf: use bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free] 2023-10-23 20:33:19 +11:00
perf Performance events changes for v6.8 are: 2024-01-08 19:37:20 -08:00
platforms TTY/Serial changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 11:37:24 -08:00
purgatory powerpc/purgatory: remove PGO flags 2023-06-12 11:31:50 -07:00
sysdev pci-v6.8-changes 2024-01-17 16:23:17 -08:00
tools powerpc/tools: Pass -mabi=elfv2 to gcc-check-mprofile-kernel.sh 2023-10-20 17:46:33 +11:00
xmon TTY/Serial driver changes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-01 09:38:00 -07:00
Kbuild
Kconfig powerpc fixes for 6.8 #2 2024-01-21 11:04:29 -08:00
Kconfig.debug powerpc/ps3: move udbg_shutdown_ps3gelic prototype 2023-11-21 12:06:50 +11:00
Makefile powerpc/Makefile: Auto detect cross compiler 2023-12-07 23:34:38 +11:00
Makefile.postlink kbuild: remove ARCH_POSTLINK from module builds 2023-10-28 21:10:08 +09:00