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author | Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> | 2017-08-29 12:51:03 -0500 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2017-08-30 10:48:41 +0200 |
commit | dd88a0a0c8615417fe6b4285769b5b772de87279 (patch) | |
tree | 3ec72a80a155dff0949ced1b01510685450b0496 /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
parent | 499934898fcd15e4337dc858be6c09cd9fd74e85 (diff) |
objtool: Handle GCC stack pointer adjustment bug
Arnd Bergmann reported the following warning with GCC 7.1.1:
fs/fs_pin.o: warning: objtool: pin_kill()+0x139: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+88 cfa2=7+96
And the kbuild robot reported the following warnings with GCC 5.4.1:
fs/fs_pin.o: warning: objtool: pin_kill()+0x182: return with modified stack frame
fs/quota/dquot.o: warning: objtool: dquot_alloc_inode()+0x140: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+120 cfa2=7+128
fs/quota/dquot.o: warning: objtool: dquot_free_inode()+0x11a: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+112 cfa2=7+120
Those warnings are caused by an unusual GCC non-optimization where it
uses an intermediate register to adjust the stack pointer. It does:
lea 0x8(%rsp), %rcx
...
mov %rcx, %rsp
Instead of the obvious:
add $0x8, %rsp
It makes no sense to use an intermediate register, so I opened a GCC bug
to track it:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81813
But it's not exactly a high-priority bug and it looks like we'll be
stuck with this issue for a while. So for now we have to track register
values when they're loaded with stack pointer offsets.
This is kind of a big workaround for a tiny problem, but c'est la vie.
I hope to eventually create a GCC plugin to implement a big chunk of
objtool's functionality. Hopefully at that point we'll be able to
remove of a lot of these GCC-isms from the objtool code.
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6a41a96884c725e7f05413bb7df40cfe824b2444.1504028945.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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