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Re: [PATCH] mips/o32: fix internal_syscall5/6/7


On 2017-08-17 18:09, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/08/2017 17:34, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > 
> >> My point is I think we should aim for compiler optimization safeness
> >> (to avoid code breakage over compiler defined default flags) and taking
> >> as base current approach to *avoid* VLA on GLIBC I do not think it is
> >> good approach to use it as a bridge to force GCC to generate the expected
> >> code.
> > 
> >  You certainly have a point here overall, although I don't think a VLA 
> > whose size is always 0 really hurts.  And we've used the approach with 
> > `alloca' since forever with no adverse effects until we added a place 
> > where the caller invokes the syscall wrapper in a loop.  So I wouldn't 
> > necessarily call it an issue.  Mind that this is target-specific code, so 
> > we can rely on a target-specific execution model rather than limiting 
> > ourselves to what generic ISO C guarantees.
> > 
> >  Aurelien's figures indicating a clear size reduction certainly count as a 
> > pro though.
> 
> Joseph pointed out another advantage of avoid VLAs (building with 
> -Werror=alloca -Werror=vla).  My main problem here is we are betting that
> compiler won't mess with our assumptions and generate the desirable code
> without trying to adhere what it is suppose to provide.  Target generic
> ISO C give us a better guarantee and any deviation indicates a possible
> compiler issue, not otherwise (such this case).  My another point is we
> can optimize if required later if this is the case and imho this is hardly
> the case here (at least for latency).
> 
> If I understood correctly Aurelien's suggestion of returning err in v1
> is not ABI strictly so it will end up calling __libc_do_syscall with a
> non-conformant ABI convention (similar to pipe implementation where requires
> assembly specific implementation for a lot of architectures to get this
> right).  Again this is something I would really to avoid.
> 

In the ABI v1 is used in pair with v0 to return 64-bit values. In my
patch the __libc_do_syscall is declared as returning a long long. The
value is then split using a union, in a similar way to what is already
done for the mips16 code.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net


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