Re: [PATCH] x86: work around clang IAS bug referencing __force_order

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 6:53 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When using the clang integrated assembler, we get a reference
> to __force_order that should normally get ignored in a few
> rare cases:
>
> ERROR: modpost: "__force_order" [drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.ko] undefined!
>
> Add a 'static' definition so any file in which this happens can
> have a local copy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

Hi Arnd,
Looks like
$ ARCH=i386 make CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 -j71
defconfig+CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6=m
is the simplest reproducer.

If I run
$ llvm-readelf -s drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.o | grep __force_order
    39: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT   UND __force_order
we can indeed see an undefined reference to __force_order.

If I build the .s file via
$ ARCH=i386 make CC=clang LLVM_IAS=1 -j71 drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.s
the only reference I see to __force_order is:
979   .addrsig_sym __force_order

which is created by Clang's implicit -faddr-sig.  If I disable that
for this file via:

```diff
diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile b/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
index f1b7e3dd6e5d..87d655d5af49 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/Makefile
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ)                +=
acpi-cpufreq.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K8)          += powernow-k8.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_PCC_CPUFREQ)          += pcc-cpufreq.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6)          += powernow-k6.o
+ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
+CFLAGS_powernow-k6.o                   += -fno-addrsig
+endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K7)          += powernow-k7.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_LONGHAUL)             += longhaul.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_E_POWERSAVER)         += e_powersaver.o
```
then the module links without error, and we get no hits for
__force_order from llvm-readelf -s.  This makes me think there may be
a bug in Clang generating address significance tables for global
variables that are otherwise unused, resulting in such linkage
failures. +pcc@ for that.

I ran a creduce job on drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.i where I'd compile
twice, one with the implicit default value of -faddr-sig and look for
the undefined __force_order, and again with -fno-addrsig and ensure
there was no undefined __force_order, which coughed up:
extern int __force_order;
int a(void) { asm("" : "=m"(__force_order)); return 0; }
as the bare minimum for an address significant table.
https://godbolt.org/z/cjfaqM

I'll bet this is coming from the call to read_cr0() in
powernow_k6_set_cpu_multiplier().  If __force_order is defined in
arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c, then I'm not sure it's a good
idea to build drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c as a kernel module
(CONFIG_X86_POWERNOW_K6=m) vs statically compiled in.  Wouldn't
__force_order need to be EXPORT'ed for kernel modules to use it
safely?

> ---
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c | 2 ++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h  | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> index c8862696a47b..8595194cea41 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/pgtable_64.c
> @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
>   * It is not referenced from the code, but GCC < 5 with -fPIE would fail
>   * due to an undefined symbol. Define it to make these ancient GCCs work.
>   */
> +#ifndef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
>  unsigned long __force_order;
> +#endif
>
>  #define BIOS_START_MIN         0x20000U        /* 128K, less than this is insane */
>  #define BIOS_START_MAX         0x9f000U        /* 640K, absolute maximum */
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> index 82436cb04ccf..7081e587c1ea 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/special_insns.h
> @@ -16,8 +16,15 @@
>   * A memory clobber would solve the problem, but would prevent reordering of
>   * all loads stores around it, which can hurt performance. Solution is to
>   * use a variable and mimic reads and writes to it to enforce serialization
> + *
> + * Clang sometimes fails to kill the reference to the dummy variable, so
> + * provide an actual copy.
>   */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CC_IS_CLANG
> +static unsigned long __force_order;
> +#else
>  extern unsigned long __force_order;
> +#endif
>
>  void native_write_cr0(unsigned long val);
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
> --


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers