Re: [PATCH] [v2] arm64: fix unreachable code issue with cmpxchg

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Wed Sep 18 2019 - 12:02:15 EST


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:02:41AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:34:25PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > On arm64 build with clang, sometimes the __cmpxchg_mb is not inlined
> > > when CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING is set.
> > > Clang then fails a compile-time assertion, because it cannot tell at
> > > compile time what the size of the argument is:
> > >
> > > mm/memcontrol.o: In function `__cmpxchg_mb':
> > > memcontrol.c:(.text+0x1a4c): undefined reference to `__compiletime_assert_175'
> > > memcontrol.c:(.text+0x1a4c): relocation truncated to fit: R_AARCH64_CALL26 against undefined symbol `__compiletime_assert_175'
> > >
> > > Mark all of the cmpxchg() style functions as __always_inline to
> > > ensure that the compiler can see the result.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/648
> > > Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@xxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > v2: skip unneeded changes, as suggested by Andrew Murray
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h | 6 +++---
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > > index a1398f2f9994..f9bef42c1411 100644
> > > --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/cmpxchg.h
> > > @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ __XCHG_CASE( , , mb_, 64, dmb ish, nop, , a, l, "memory")
> > > #undef __XCHG_CASE
> > >
> > > #define __XCHG_GEN(sfx) \
> > > -static inline unsigned long __xchg##sfx(unsigned long x, \
> > > +static __always_inline unsigned long __xchg##sfx(unsigned long x, \
> > > volatile void *ptr, \
> > > int size) \
> > > { \
> > > @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ __CMPXCHG_DBL(_mb)
> > > #undef __CMPXCHG_DBL
> > >
> > > #define __CMPXCHG_GEN(sfx) \
> > > -static inline unsigned long __cmpxchg##sfx(volatile void *ptr, \
> > > +static __always_inline unsigned long __cmpxchg##sfx(volatile void *ptr, \
> > > unsigned long old, \
> > > unsigned long new, \
> > > int size) \
> > > @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ __CMPWAIT_CASE( , , 64);
> > > #undef __CMPWAIT_CASE
> > >
> > > #define __CMPWAIT_GEN(sfx) \
> > > -static inline void __cmpwait##sfx(volatile void *ptr, \
> > > +static __always_inline void __cmpwait##sfx(volatile void *ptr, \
> > > unsigned long val, \
> > > int size) \
> > > { \
> > > --
> > > 2.20.0
> > >
> >
> > Looks like the arm64 pull request happened without this patch so clang
> > all{mod,yes}config builds are broken. Did the maintainers have any
> > further comments on it or could this make it in with the next one?
>
> Fear not! I plan to send this with some other fixes we've got for -rc1.
> I just to get my CI scripts going again (new machine), but that shouldn't
> take long.
>
> Will

Great, thank you!

Cheers,
Nathan