The prologue is run on every single function executed in a program, so
I believe that in the hopes of keeping it as light as possible it
never makes any function calls.

I do agree though, that it's at tricky situation in that case. How
does TLS otherwise work for that platform?

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a side question related to the same code.
>
> Currently __STACK_LIMIT is constant, but I would like the preamble to verify
> stack overflow for multithreaded context, i.e. __STACK_LIMIT will depend on
> the current running thread. Is there any reason, why it's not a function?
> Any objections if I do some refactoring and make it a function? For a simple
> case that could be a weak symbol that returns a constant.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Alex Crichton <a...@crichton.co> wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Corey, it's much better to send it upstream first. I'd be
>> more than willing to help you out with writing tests or taking a peek
>> at the patch if you want! I'm acrichto on IRC
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcal...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The problem is that mrc is generated unless target is thumb1, but
>> > cortex-m3
>> > is thumb2 that still doesn't support mrc:
>> >
>> > http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka398.html,
>> > so an additional check to ST->TargetTriple.Data is required to verify
>> > it's
>> > not thumbv7m.
>> >
>> > Do I need to submit patch against https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm or
>> > send
>> > it to upstream?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Vladimir Pouzanov <farcal...@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hm, it seems to have precautions to stop mrc from materializing on
>> >> Thumb1.
>> >> I guess I need to take a better look into what's going wrong on my
>> >> side.
>> >> I'll see what I can do with that.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Alex Crichton <a...@crichton.co>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> The split stack patches for ARM were recently upstreamed, and they
>> >>> were modified when being upstreamed as well. Primarily the location of
>> >>> the split stack is no longer at a magic address for thumb, but rather
>> >>> it uses the same instruction as ARM (some thumb processors do indeed
>> >>> have the coprocessor). More information is in the long thread starting
>> >>> at the initial attempt to upstream [1].
>> >>>
>> >>> For now you'll have to use no_split_stack because the thumb split
>> >>> stack will always use a coprocessor, but I'm sure that the upstream
>> >>> LLVM devs would be quite welcoming to tweaks to the slit-stack support
>> >>> (I'd also be willing to help). You can find the initial commit for
>> >>> support at rust-lang/llvm [2].
>> >>>
>> >>> [1] -
>> >>>
>> >>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20140224/205968.html
>> >>> [2] - https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/pull/4
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:50 AM, Vladimir Pouzanov
>> >>> <farcal...@gmail.com>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Starting recently (no more than two weeks), rustc is generating a
>> >>> > broken
>> >>> > prologue for arm. Here's the sample assembly:
>> >>> >    0x00000f44 <+0>: push {r4, r5}
>> >>> > => 0x00000f46 <+2>: mrc 15, 0, r4, cr13, cr0, {3}
>> >>> >    0x00000f4a <+6>: mov r5, sp
>> >>> >    0x00000f4c <+8>: b.n 0xa78 <main+2616>
>> >>> >    0x00000f4e <+10>: ands r4, r0
>> >>> >    0x00000f50 <+12>: cmp r4, r5
>> >>> >    0x00000f52 <+14>: bcc.n 0xf66
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > <_ZN7drivers3lcd6c1233244C12332$LT$$x27a$C$$x20S$C$$x20T$GT$.lcd..LCD5flush20h76589116290686712394v0.0E+34>
>> >>> >    0x00000f54 <+16>: movs r4, #16
>> >>> >    0x00000f56 <+18>: movs r5, #0
>> >>> >    0x00000f58 <+20>: push {lr}
>> >>> >    0x00000f5a <+22>: bl 0x19d8 <__morestack>
>> >>> >    0x00000f5e <+26>: ldr.w lr, [sp], #4
>> >>> >    0x00000f62 <+30>: pop {r4, r5}
>> >>> >    0x00000f64 <+32>: bx lr
>> >>> >
>> >>> > The problem is at 0x00000f46, where code tries to read from
>> >>> > coprocessor
>> >>> > 15
>> >>> > register 13, which is "process id register". Well, coprocessor 15
>> >>> > (actually,
>> >>> > all of the coprocessors) are missing from my target
>> >>> > thumbv7m-linux-eabi
>> >>> > (with added flavour of -Ctarget-cpu=cortex-m3, which should be
>> >>> > redundant
>> >>> > anyway), so I'm getting hardfaults in every function that rust
>> >>> > doesn't
>> >>> > inline.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Any ideas on what might be going wrong? I assume that this is
>> >>> > actually
>> >>> > llvm's fault, as llvm should not materialize machine code which is
>> >>> > not
>> >>> > available for target anyway.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Wrapping everything in #[no_split_stack] is a temporary workaround
>> >>> > and
>> >>> > surely not a long-term strategy.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > --
>> >>> > Sincerely,
>> >>> > Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
>> >>> > http://farcaller.net/
>> >>> >
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>> >>> > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
>> >>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >> Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
>> >> http://farcaller.net/
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
>> > http://farcaller.net/
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov
> http://farcaller.net/
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