Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:43:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-src-old@freebsd.org Subject: cvs commit: src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/nvpair nvpair.c Message-ID: <200907112243.n6BMhZtl084235@repoman.freebsd.org>
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marcel 2009-07-11 22:43:20 UTC FreeBSD src repository Modified files: sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/nvpair nvpair.c Log: SVN rev 195627 on 2009-07-11 22:43:20Z by marcel In nvpair_native_embedded_array(), meaningless pointers are zeroed. The programmer was aware that alignment was not guaranteed in the packed structure and used bzero() to NULL out the pointers. However, on ia64, the compiler is quite agressive in finding ILP and calls to bzero() are often replaced by simple assignments (i.e. stores). Especially when the width or size in question corresponds with a store instruction (i.e. st1, st2, st4 or st8). The problem here is not a compiler bug. The address of the memory to zero-out was given by '&packed->nvl_priv' and given the type of the 'packed' pointer the compiler could assume proper alignment for the replacement of bzero() with an 8-byte wide store to be valid. The problem is with the programmer. The programmer knew that the address did not have the alignment guarantees needed for a regular assignment, but failed to inform the compiler of that fact. In fact, the programmer told the compiler the opposite: alignment is guaranteed. The fix is to avoid using a pointer of type "nvlist_t *" and instead use a "char *" pointer as the basis for calculating the address. This tells the compiler that only 1-byte alignment can be assumed and the compiler will either keep the bzero() call or instead replace it with a sequence of byte-wise stores. Both are valid. Approved by: re (kib) Revision Changes Path 1.5 +6 -3 src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/common/nvpair/nvpair.c
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