Am Montag, 27. April 2015, 22:34:30 schrieb Daniel Borkmann: Hi Daniel,
> On 04/27/2015 09:10 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote: > ... > > > I posted the issue on the clang mailing list on April 10 -- no word so > > far. I would interpret this as a sign that it is a no-issue for them. > > Hm. ;) > > Here's a bug report on the topic, gcc vs llvm: > > https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=15495 > > Lets add a new barrier macro to linux/compiler{,-gcc}.h, f.e. > > #define barrier_data(ptr) __asm__ __volatile__("" : : "r" (ptr) : > "memory") > > or the version Mancha proposed. You could wrap that ... > > #define OPTIMIZER_HIDE(ptr) barrier_data(ptr) > > ... and use that one for memzero_explicit() instead: > > void memzero_explicit(void *s, size_t count) > { > memset(s, 0, count); > OPTIMIZER_HIDE(s); > } > > It certainly needs comments explaining in what situations to use > which OPTIMIZER_HIDE* variants, etc. > > Do you want to send a patch? It seems you have the code already in mind, so please if you could write it :-) -- Ciao Stephan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
