----- On Aug 21, 2019, at 8:33 AM, Peter Zijlstra [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 06:23:10AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 11:32:01AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>
>> > and so it is using a store-pair instruction to reduce the complexity in
>> > the immediate generation. Thus, the 64-bit store will only have 32-bit
>> > atomicity. In fact, this is scary because if I change bar to:
>> >
>> > void bar(u64 *x)
>> > {
>> > *(volatile u64 *)x = 0xabcdef10abcdef10;
>> > }
>> >
>> > then I get:
>> >
>> > bar:
>> > mov w1, 61200
>> > movk w1, 0xabcd, lsl 16
>> > str w1, [x0]
>> > str w1, [x0, 4]
>> > ret
>> >
>> > so I'm not sure that WRITE_ONCE would even help :/
>>
>> Well, I can have the LWN article cite your email, then. So thank you
>> very much!
>>
>> Is generation of this code for a 64-bit volatile store considered a bug?
>> Or does ARMv8 exclude the possibility of 64-bit MMIO registers? And I
>> would guess that Thomas and Linus would ask a similar bugginess question
>> for normal stores. ;-)
>
> I'm calling this a compiler bug; the way I understand volatile this is
> very much against the intentended use case. That is, this is buggy even
> on UP vs signals or MMIO.
And here is a simpler reproducer on my gcc-8.3.0 (aarch64) compiled with O2:
volatile unsigned long a;
void fct(void)
{
a = 0x1234567812345678ULL;
}
void fct(void)
{
a = 0x1234567812345678ULL;
0: 90000000 adrp x0, 8 <fct+0x8>
4: 528acf01 mov w1, #0x5678 // #22136
8: 72a24681 movk w1, #0x1234, lsl #16
c: f9400000 ldr x0, [x0]
10: b9000001 str w1, [x0]
14: b9000401 str w1, [x0, #4]
}
18: d65f03c0 ret
And the non-volatile case uses stp (is it a single store to memory ?):
unsigned long a;
void fct(void)
{
a = 0x1234567812345678ULL;
}
void fct(void)
{
a = 0x1234567812345678ULL;
0: 90000000 adrp x0, 8 <fct+0x8>
4: 528acf01 mov w1, #0x5678 // #22136
8: 72a24681 movk w1, #0x1234, lsl #16
c: f9400000 ldr x0, [x0]
10: 29000401 stp w1, w1, [x0]
}
14: d65f03c0 ret
It would probably be a good idea to audit other architectures, since this
is done by the compiler backend.
Thanks,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
