Re: [GIT PULL] core/hweight changes for v2.6.35

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon May 17 2010 - 17:49:13 EST




On Mon, 17 May 2010, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
> +/* popcnt %rdi, %rax */
> +#define POPCNT ".byte 0xf3,0x48,0x0f,0xb8,0xc7"
> +#define REG_IN "D"
> +#define REG_OUT "a"
...
> +/*
> + * __sw_hweightXX are called from within the alternatives below
> + * and callee-clobbered registers need to be taken care of. See
> + * ARCH_HWEIGHT_CFLAGS in <arch/x86/Kconfig> for the respective
> + * compiler switches.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned int __arch_hweight32(unsigned int w)
> +{
> + unsigned int res = 0;
> +
> + asm (ALTERNATIVE("call __sw_hweight32", POPCNT, X86_FEATURE_POPCNT)
> + : "="REG_OUT (res)
> + : REG_IN (w));
> +
> + return res;
> +}

I do not believe this is correct.

On x86-64, you are using a 64-bit instruction, but

REG_IN (w)

does _not_ guarantee that the register is zero in the high bits.

Yes, yes, in practice it _probably_ is, because the register almost
certainly got loaded with some kind of zero-extending mov instruction. But
as far as I can tell, the code is buggy. You're telling gcc that you are
using a 32-bit register, but you're actually counting bits in the full 64
bits.

Am I missing something?

Linus
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