Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:12:58 -0800 | Subject | [PATCH v2] x86: use builtins to read eflags | From | Bill Wendling <> |
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GCC and Clang both have builtins to read and write the EFLAGS register. This allows the compiler to determine the best way to generate this code, which can improve code generation.
This issue arose due to Clang's issue with the "=rm" constraint. Clang chooses to be conservative in these situations, and so uses memory instead of registers. This is a known issue, which is currently being addressed.
However, using builtins is benefiical in general, because it removes the burden of determining what's the way to read the flags register from the programmer and places it on to the compiler, which has the information needed to make that decision. Indeed, this piece of code has had several changes over the years, some of which were pinging back and forth to determine the correct constraints to use.
With this change, Clang generates better code:
Original code: movq $0, -48(%rbp) #APP # __raw_save_flags pushfq popq -48(%rbp) #NO_APP movq -48(%rbp), %rbx
New code: pushfq popq %rbx #APP
Note that the stack slot in the original code is no longer needed in the new code, saving a small amount of stack space.
Signed-off-by: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com> --- v2: - Kept the original function to retain the out-of-line symbol. - Improved the commit message. - Note that I couldn't use Nick's suggestion of
return IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_X86_64) ? ...
because Clang complains about using __builtin_ia32_readeflags_u32 in 64-bit mode. --- arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h | 19 +++++-------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h index c5ce9845c999..27f919ea7ac3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irqflags.h @@ -19,20 +19,11 @@ extern inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void); extern __always_inline unsigned long native_save_fl(void) { - unsigned long flags; - - /* - * "=rm" is safe here, because "pop" adjusts the stack before - * it evaluates its effective address -- this is part of the - * documented behavior of the "pop" instruction. - */ - asm volatile("# __raw_save_flags\n\t" - "pushf ; pop %0" - : "=rm" (flags) - : /* no input */ - : "memory"); - - return flags; +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 + return __builtin_ia32_readeflags_u64(); +#else + return __builtin_ia32_readeflags_u32(); +#endif } static __always_inline void native_irq_disable(void) -- 2.34.1.448.ga2b2bfdf31-goog
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