[PATCH v2 08/11] s390: Store SFrame CFA offset adjusted

Indu Bhagat indu.bhagat@oracle.com
Mon Jun 2 20:46:29 GMT 2025


On 5/27/25 4:07 AM, Jens Remus wrote:
> In SFrame V2 the size of the offsets following an SFrame FRE can be
> either signed 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit integer, which the largest offset
> determining their size:
>    1. CFA offset from CFA base register
>    2. RA (stack save slot) offset from CFA, usually -48 on s390x if saved
>    3. FP (stack save slot) offset from CFA, usually -72 on s390x if saved
> The FP and RA offsets from CFA, when FP/RA saved on the stack, usually
> have fixed values that fit into signed 8-bit SFrame offsets.  Likewise
> the DWARF register numbers on s390x of general registers (GR; 0-15) and
> floating-point registers (FPR; 16-31), when FP/RA saved in registers.
> With that the CFA offset from CFA base register has the greatest impact
> on the signed SFrame offset size.
> 
> The s390x ELF ABI [1] defines the CFA as stack pointer (SP) at call
> site +160. [2]  Therefore the minimum CFA offset from CFA base register
> on s390x is 160.  This does not fit into a signed 8-bit integer and
> therefore effectively prevents any use of signed 8-bit SFrame offsets
> on s390x.
> 
> For s390x store the CFA offset from CFA base register adjusted by -160
> to enable the use of signed 8-bit SFrame offsets.
> 
> [1]: s390x ELF ABI, https://github.com/IBM/s390x-abi/releases
> [2]: s390x ELF ABI, commit 4e38ad9c8a88 ("Document the CFA"),
>       https://github.com/IBM/s390x-abi/commit/4e38ad9c8a88
> 
> include/
> 	* sframe.h (SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT): Define
> 	s390x-specific CFA offset adjustment.
> 	(SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE,
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE): New s390x-specific
> 	macros.  Use SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT to en-/decode
> 	CFA offset.
> 
> bfd/
> 	* elf64-s390.c (elf_s390x_sframe_plt_fre): Use
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE on CFA offset to store it
> 	adjusted and switch to 8-bit offsets.
> 
> gas/
> 	* gen-sframe.c (sframe_fre_set_cfa_offset): For s390x use
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE on CFA offset to store it
> 	adjusted.
> 	(sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset): New helper.  For s390x use
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE on CFA offset to undo its
> 	adjustment.
> 	(sframe_xlate_do_def_cfa_register): Use new helper
> 	sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset.
> 
> libsframe/
> 	* sframe.c (sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset): For s390x use
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE on CFA offset to undo its
> 	adjustment.
> 	* doc/sframe-spec.texi (s390x,
> 	SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT,
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE,
> 	SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE): Document s390x-specific
> 	adjustment of CFA offset.
> 
> libsframe/testsuite/
> 	* libsframe.find/plt-findfre-2.c (add_plt0_fde, add_pltn_fde):
> 	Use SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE to enable use of
> 	1-byte SFrame offsets.
> 

SFrame specific implementation looks good to me.  One question below. 
It will be good to double check in case we have overlooked something.

> Suggested-by: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>


Reviewed-by: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>

> ---
> 
> Notes (jremus):
>      Changes in V2:
>      - Reword commit message (s390 to s390x, offsets, FDE to FRE). (Indu)
>      - Rename s390x-specific macros from *_S390_* to *_S390X_*. (Indu)
>      - Use "s390x" instead of "S390" in comments and SFrame spec. (Indu)
>      - Change order of CFA restore instructions in SFrame spec. (Indu)
>      - Update new libsframe test plt-findfre-2.
>      
>      A test build of Glibc tag 2.41 on s390x libc.so shows a ~8.8% reduction in
>      .sframe section size due to storing the SFrame CFA offsets adjusted by
>      -160.
>      
>      Statistics for libc.so - base (no CFA offset adjustment):
>      
>        .sframe size:  169,749 bytes
>      
>        VALUE        TOTAL      MIN        MAX        AVG
>        FDEs:        3652       -          -          -
>        FREs/FDE:    15236      1          20         4
>        Offsets/FDE: 29792      1          38         8
>           8-bit:    0          0          0          0
>          16-bit:    29792      1          38         8
>          32-bit:    0          0          0          0
>        Offsets/FRE: 29792      1          3          1
>           8-bit:    -          0          0          0
>          16-bit:    -          1          3          1
>          32-bit:    -          0          0          0
>        O_Padd/FDE:  342        -          -          0
>           8-bit:    0
>          16-bit:    342
>          32-bit:    0
>      
>      Statistics for libc.so - CFA offset adjustment:
>      
>        .sframe size: 154,757 bytes
>      
>        VALUE        TOTAL      MIN        MAX        AVG
>        FDEs:        3654       -          -          -

Hmm, why would the number of FDEs shift (3652 above vs 3654 now) with 
this sort of experiment.

>        FREs/FDE:    15238      1          20         4
>        Offsets/FDE: 29794      1          38         8
>           8-bit:    14992      1          38         4
>          16-bit:    14802      0          0          4
>          32-bit:    0          0          0          0
>        Offsets/FRE: 29794      2          6          1
>           8-bit:    -          1          3          0
>          16-bit:    -          1          3          0
>          32-bit:    -          0          0          0
>        O_Padd/FDE:  342        -          -          0
>           8-bit:    283
>          16-bit:    59
>          32-bit:    0
>      
>      Changes in V2:
>      - New patch. (Indu)
>      
>      Kept this as a separate patch, as it does not depend on nor test the
>      linker changes introduced with "s390: Add SFrame stack trace information
>      for .plt section", although closely related.
> 
>   bfd/elf64-s390.c                               |  4 ++--
>   gas/gen-sframe.c                               | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>   include/sframe.h                               |  8 ++++++++
>   libsframe/doc/sframe-spec.texi                 | 10 +++++++++-
>   libsframe/sframe.c                             | 10 ++++++++--
>   .../testsuite/libsframe.find/plt-findfre-2.c   |  8 ++++----
>   6 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/bfd/elf64-s390.c b/bfd/elf64-s390.c
> index bd4ffcc9d13a..7e9dc24f1c6c 100644
> --- a/bfd/elf64-s390.c
> +++ b/bfd/elf64-s390.c
> @@ -621,8 +621,8 @@ struct elf_s390x_sframe_plt
>   static const sframe_frame_row_entry elf_s390x_sframe_plt_fre =
>   {
>     0, /* SFrame FRE start address.  */
> -  {0, 160, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, /* 12 bytes.  */
> -  SFRAME_V1_FRE_INFO (SFRAME_BASE_REG_SP, 1, SFRAME_FRE_OFFSET_2B) /* FRE info.  */
> +  { SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE (160), 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }, /* Offset bytes.  */
> +  SFRAME_V1_FRE_INFO (SFRAME_BASE_REG_SP, 1, SFRAME_FRE_OFFSET_1B) /* FRE info.  */
>   };
>   
>   /* SFrame helper object for PLT.  */
> diff --git a/gas/gen-sframe.c b/gas/gen-sframe.c
> index 3c7db6cf458e..1d61471176a4 100644
> --- a/gas/gen-sframe.c
> +++ b/gas/gen-sframe.c
> @@ -134,10 +134,26 @@ sframe_fre_set_cfa_base_reg (struct sframe_row_entry *fre,
>     fre->merge_candidate = false;
>   }
>   
> +static offsetT
> +sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset (const struct sframe_row_entry * fre)
> +{
> +  offsetT offset = fre->cfa_offset;
> +
> +  /* For s390x undo adjustment of CFA offset (to enable 8-bit offsets).  */
> +  if (sframe_get_abi_arch () == SFRAME_ABI_S390X_ENDIAN_BIG)
> +    offset = SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE (offset);
> +
> +  return offset;
> +}
> +
>   static void
>   sframe_fre_set_cfa_offset (struct sframe_row_entry *fre,
>   			   offsetT cfa_offset)
>   {
> +  /* For s390x adjust CFA offset to enable 8-bit offsets.  */
> +  if (sframe_get_abi_arch () == SFRAME_ABI_S390X_ENDIAN_BIG)
> +    cfa_offset = SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE (cfa_offset);
> +
>     fre->cfa_offset = cfa_offset;
>     fre->merge_candidate = false;
>   }
> @@ -1036,7 +1052,7 @@ sframe_xlate_do_def_cfa_register (struct sframe_xlate_ctx *xlate_ctx,
>       }
>     sframe_fre_set_cfa_base_reg (cur_fre, cfi_insn->u.r);
>     if (last_fre)
> -    sframe_fre_set_cfa_offset (cur_fre, last_fre->cfa_offset);
> +    sframe_fre_set_cfa_offset (cur_fre, sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset (last_fre));
>   
>     cur_fre->merge_candidate = false;
>   
> diff --git a/include/sframe.h b/include/sframe.h
> index 5ad007f6ccb0..43cebc1b49cc 100644
> --- a/include/sframe.h
> +++ b/include/sframe.h
> @@ -364,6 +364,14 @@ typedef struct sframe_frame_row_entry_addr4
>   #define SFRAME_FRE_TYPE_ADDR4_LIMIT   \
>     (1ULL << ((SFRAME_FRE_TYPE_ADDR4 * 2) * 8))
>   
> +/* On s390x, the CFA offset from CFA base register is by definition a minimum
> +   of 160.  Store it adjusted by -160 to enable use of 8-bit SFrame offsets.  */
> +#define SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT		SFRAME_S390X_SP_VAL_OFFSET
> +#define SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE(offset) \
> +  ((offset) + SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT)
> +#define SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE(offset) \
> +  ((offset) - SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT)
> +
>   /* On s390x, the CFA is defined as SP at call site + 160.  Therefore the
>      SP value offset from CFA is -160.  */
>   #define SFRAME_S390X_SP_VAL_OFFSET			(-160)
> diff --git a/libsframe/doc/sframe-spec.texi b/libsframe/doc/sframe-spec.texi
> index f42a9136b76e..8497619de427 100644
> --- a/libsframe/doc/sframe-spec.texi
> +++ b/libsframe/doc/sframe-spec.texi
> @@ -845,7 +845,15 @@ case in the topmost stack frame of the callchain.  For FP this may be the case
>   in any stack frame.
>   
>   Irrespective of the ABI, the first stack offset is always used to locate the
> -CFA, by interpreting it as: CFA = @code{BASE_REG} + offset1.
> +CFA.  On s390x the value of the offset is stored adjusted by the s390x-specific
> +@code{SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT} to enable the use of signed 8-bit
> +offsets on s390x.
> +s390x-specific helpers @code{SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE} and
> +@code{SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE} are provided to perform and undo
> +the adjustment.  The CFA offset can therefore be interpreted as:
> +CFA = @code{BASE_REG} + @code{SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE(offset1)}
> +or
> +CFA = @code{BASE_REG} + offset1 - @code{SFRAME_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ADJUSTMENT}.
>   The identification of the @code{BASE_REG} is done by using the
>   @code{fre_cfa_base_reg_id} field in the SFrame FRE info word.
>   
> diff --git a/libsframe/sframe.c b/libsframe/sframe.c
> index 712551b0ed1a..2e0397e87b67 100644
> --- a/libsframe/sframe.c
> +++ b/libsframe/sframe.c
> @@ -673,10 +673,16 @@ sframe_fre_get_base_reg_id (sframe_frame_row_entry *fre, int *errp)
>   /* Get the CFA offset from the FRE.  If the offset is invalid, sets errp.  */
>   
>   int32_t
> -sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset (sframe_decoder_ctx *dctx ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
> +sframe_fre_get_cfa_offset (sframe_decoder_ctx *dctx,
>   			   sframe_frame_row_entry *fre, int *errp)
>   {
> -  return sframe_get_fre_offset (fre, SFRAME_FRE_CFA_OFFSET_IDX, errp);
> +  int32_t offset = sframe_get_fre_offset (fre, SFRAME_FRE_CFA_OFFSET_IDX, errp);
> +
> +  /* For s390x undo adjustment of CFA offset (to enable 8-bit offsets).  */
> +  if (sframe_decoder_get_abi_arch (dctx) == SFRAME_ABI_S390X_ENDIAN_BIG)
> +    offset = SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_DECODE (offset);
> +
> +  return offset;
>   }
>   
>   /* Get the FP offset from the FRE.  If the offset is invalid, sets errp.
> diff --git a/libsframe/testsuite/libsframe.find/plt-findfre-2.c b/libsframe/testsuite/libsframe.find/plt-findfre-2.c
> index ef9cc6bc7ed7..df5a1f84cb3c 100644
> --- a/libsframe/testsuite/libsframe.find/plt-findfre-2.c
> +++ b/libsframe/testsuite/libsframe.find/plt-findfre-2.c
> @@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ add_plt0_fde (sframe_encoder_ctx *ectx, int idx)
>     /* 1 FRE.  The start_ip_offset must remain less than 32 bytes.  */
>     sframe_frame_row_entry fre
>       = { 0x0,
> -	{ 0, 160 },
> -	SFRAME_V1_FRE_INFO (SFRAME_BASE_REG_SP, 1, SFRAME_FRE_OFFSET_2B) };
> +	{ SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE (160) },
> +	SFRAME_V1_FRE_INFO (SFRAME_BASE_REG_SP, 1, SFRAME_FRE_OFFSET_1B) };
>   
>     unsigned char finfo = sframe_fde_create_func_info (SFRAME_FRE_TYPE_ADDR1,
>   						     SFRAME_FDE_TYPE_PCINC);
> @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ add_pltn_fde (sframe_encoder_ctx *ectx, int idx)
>     /* 1 FRE.  The start_ip_offset must remain less than 32 bytes.  */
>     sframe_frame_row_entry fre
>       = { 0x0,
> -	{ 0, 160+8 },
> -	SFRAME_V1_FRE_INFO (SFRAME_BASE_REG_SP, 1, SFRAME_FRE_OFFSET_2B) };
> +	{ SFRAME_V2_FRE_S390X_CFA_OFFSET_ENCODE (160+8) },
> +	SFRAME_V1_FRE_INFO (SFRAME_BASE_REG_SP, 1, SFRAME_FRE_OFFSET_1B) };
>   
>     unsigned char finfo = sframe_fde_create_func_info (SFRAME_FRE_TYPE_ADDR1,
>   						     SFRAME_FDE_TYPE_PCMASK);



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