Re: [PATCH v5 04/17] x86/acrn: Introduce hypercall interfaces

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 02:01:13PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> It just asks the general_operand function, which (for registers) accepts
> the hard registers that are accessible.  This does include the float and
> vector etc. registers, normally.
> 
> But you usually have a pseudo-register there (which is always allowed
> here), unless you used some register asm variable.

You mean like this:

---
int main(void)
{
	register float foo asm ("xmm0") = 0.99f;

        asm volatile("movl %0, %%r8d\n\t"
                      "vmcall\n\t"
                      :: "g" (foo));

        return 0;
}
---

That works ok AFAICT:

---

0000000000000000 <main>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   f3 0f 10 05 00 00 00    movss  0x0(%rip),%xmm0        # c <main+0xc>
   b:   00 
   c:   66 0f 7e c0             movd   %xmm0,%eax
  10:   41 89 c0                mov    %eax,%r8d
  13:   0f 01 c1                vmcall 
  16:   b8 00 00 00 00          mov    $0x0,%eax
  1b:   5d                      pop    %rbp
  1c:   c3                      retq

---

gcc smartypants shuffles it through a GPR before sticking it into %r8.

It works too If I use a float immediate:

---
int main(void)
{
        asm volatile("movl %0, %%r8d\n\t"
                      "vmcall\n\t"
                      :: "g" (0.99f));
                      
        return 0;     
}
---

---
0000000000000000 <main>:
   0:   55                      push   %rbp
   1:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
   4:   41 b8 a4 70 7d 3f       mov    $0x3f7d70a4,%r8d
   a:   0f 01 c1                vmcall 
   d:   b8 00 00 00 00          mov    $0x0,%eax
  12:   5d                      pop    %rbp
  13:   c3                      retq
---

or maybe I'm missing some freaky way to specify the input operand so
that I can make it take a float register. But even if I could, it would
error out when generating the asm, I presume, due to invalid insn or
whatnot.

> And pseudos usually are allocated a simple integer register during
> register allocation, in an asm that is.

Interesting.

> > Might even make people copying from bad examples
> > to go look at the docs first...
> 
> Optimism is cool :-)

In my experience so far, documenting stuff better might not always bring
the expected results but sometimes it does move people in the most
unexpected way and miracles happen.

:-)))


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    Boris.

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