Re: [PATCH v4 02/10] objtool: Handle special cases of dead end insn

[Tiezhu Yang]

On 11/26/2024 02:45 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 12:49:57PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> > There are some "unreachable instruction" objtool warnings when compling
> > with Clang on LoongArch, this is because the "break" instruction is set
> > as dead end due to its type is INSN_BUG in decode_instructions() at the
> > beginning, and it does not set insn->dead_end of the "break" instruction
> > as false after checking ".rela.discard.reachable" in add_dead_ends(), so
> > the next instruction of "break" is marked as unreachable.
> >
> > Actually, it can find the reachable instruction after parsing the section
> > ".rela.discard.reachable", in some cases, the "break" instruction may not
> > be the first previous instruction with scheduling by Machine Instruction
> > Scheduler of LLVM, it should find more times and then set insn->dead_end
> > of the "break" instruction as false.
> >
> > This is preparation for later patch on LoongArch, there is no effect for
> > the other archs with this patch.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'm having trouble understanding this commit log, is the problem that
> the compiler is sometimes inserting code between 'break' and the
> unreachable() inline asm?
>
> If so, this sounds like a problem that was already solved for x86 with:
>
>   bfb1a7c91fb7 ("x86/bug: Merge annotate_reachable() into _BUG_FLAGS() asm")
>
> Can you check if that fixes it?

I will try, thank you.