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Date:      Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:49:57 -0500
From:      Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
To:        Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, mdf@freebsd.org, Piotr Nowak <pn@semihalf.com>
Subject:   Re: gcc 4.2 miscompilation with -O2 -fno-omit-frame-pointer on amd64
Message-ID:  <CACqU3MVO-oWso%2BF4G%2BRP4d%2By761=-Oz3COt2ubDogdBK834jEA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <6D023449-EDEA-4B1C-975D-54AA2F4328CE@semihalf.com>
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Hi,

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com> wrote:
>
> On 2011-12-08, at 17:53, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>
>> On 12/08/11 03:01, Piotr Nowak wrote:
>>> We're working on PowerPC target using GCC 4.2.1
>>> and FreeBSD 6.1. It seems like we have similar
>>> problem. In our case GCC sometimes very unfortunately
>>> optimize code with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.
>>>
>>> Example shown below covers file sys/powerc/booke/pmap.c
>>> and function pmap_kenter. If we disassemble kernel binary
>>> we have:
>>>
>>> c019998c: =A0 4b ec 6a ed =A0 =A0 bl =A0 =A0 =A0c0060478<_mtx_unlock_sp=
in_flags>
>>> c0199990: =A0 81 61 00 00 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r11,0(r1)
>>> c0199994: =A0 80 0b 00 04 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r0,4(r11)
>>> c0199998: =A0 7d 61 5b 78 =A0 =A0 mr =A0 =A0 =A0r1,r11
>>> c019999c: =A0 82 ab ff d4 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r21,-44(r11)
>>> c01999a0: =A0 7c 08 03 a6 =A0 =A0 mtlr =A0 =A0r0
>>> c01999a4: =A0 82 cb ff d8 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r22,-40(r11)
>>> c01999a8: =A0 82 eb ff dc =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r23,-36(r11)
>>> c01999ac: =A0 83 0b ff e0 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r24,-32(r11)
>>> c01999b0: =A0 83 2b ff e4 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r25,-28(r11)
>>> c01999b4: =A0 83 4b ff e8 =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r26,-24(r11)
>>> c01999b8: =A0 83 6b ff ec =A0 =A0 lwz =A0 =A0 r27,-20(r11)
>>>
>>> As you can see stack pointer on R1 is being updated
>>> before stashed data were pulled off stack. (mr r1,r11)
>>> As a result of this we have chance to get crash when
>>> any interrupt hit shortly after stack pointer update.
>>> The interrupt prologue will override not yet pulled off
>>> pmap_kenter function data.
>>>
>>> The problem occures only with -fno-omit-frame-pointer
>>> and not every branch returns are beeing corrupted.
>>>
>>> Do you think this issue may be somehow related to yours?
>>> Are there any patches/solutions to fix it?
>>
>> Should we turn off -fno-omit-frame-frame-pointer on PPC then? It's enabl=
ed in default kernel builds.
>
> I think that's a good idea. Even though we have managed to trigger this o=
nly in rare cases, the problem is real and the code generated is broken i.e=
. leads to corruption and panics.
>
How can you make any conclusion without having seen a single line of
code actually triggering the problem ? That sounds very
irresponsible...

 - Arnaud



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