From: Quinn Tran <quinn.tran@qlogic.com>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
"Himanshu Madhani" <himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com>,
Dept-Eng QLA2xxx Upstream <qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com>,
Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFT] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:27:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0BE93A68-5E0C-4372-B04E-B3209F7515D1@qlogic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427221101.hiyc7ensow667sk6@treble>
-----Original Message-----
From: <linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org> on behalf of Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 3:11 PM
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.cz>, "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>, linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@qlogic.com>, Dept-Eng QLA2xxx Upstream <qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFT] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug
>On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:00:36AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> This is another attempt to avoid a regression in wwn_to_u64()
>> after that started using get_unaligned_be64(), which in turn
>> ran into a bug on gcc-4.9 through 6.1.
>>
>> As part of the problem is how __builtin_constant_p gets evaluated
>> on an argument passed by reference into an inline function, this
>> avoids the use of __builtin_constant_p() for all architectures
>> that set CONFIG_ARCH_USE_BUILTIN_BSWAP. Most architectures do not
>> set ARCH_SUPPORTS_OPTIMIZED_INLINING, which means they probably
>> do not suffer from the problem in the qla2xxx driver, but they
>> might still run into it elsewhere.
>>
>> I have not been able to reproduce the original problem, so I don't
>> know if this patch solves it, but at least it leads to simpler
>> code doing the same thing, so at least there should be no downsides.
>>
>> Please test.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
>Nice patch. I can confirm it fixes the issue with gcc 5.3.1.
>
>Tested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
>Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/swab.h b/include/uapi/linux/swab.h
>> index 3f10e5317b46..de56fd54428d 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/swab.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/swab.h
>> @@ -45,9 +45,7 @@
>>
>> static inline __attribute_const__ __u16 __fswab16(__u16 val)
>> {
>> -#ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
>> - return __builtin_bswap16(val);
>> -#elif defined (__arch_swab16)
>> +#if defined (__arch_swab16)
>> return __arch_swab16(val);
>> #else
>> return ___constant_swab16(val);
>> @@ -56,9 +54,7 @@ static inline __attribute_const__ __u16 __fswab16(__u16 val)
>>
>> static inline __attribute_const__ __u32 __fswab32(__u32 val)
>> {
>> -#ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP32__
>> - return __builtin_bswap32(val);
>> -#elif defined(__arch_swab32)
>> +#if defined(__arch_swab32)
>> return __arch_swab32(val);
>> #else
>> return ___constant_swab32(val);
>> @@ -67,9 +63,7 @@ static inline __attribute_const__ __u32 __fswab32(__u32 val)
>>
>> static inline __attribute_const__ __u64 __fswab64(__u64 val)
>> {
>> -#ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
>> - return __builtin_bswap64(val);
>> -#elif defined (__arch_swab64)
>> +#if defined (__arch_swab64)
>> return __arch_swab64(val);
>> #elif defined(__SWAB_64_THRU_32__)
>> __u32 h = val >> 32;
>> @@ -102,28 +96,40 @@ static inline __attribute_const__ __u32 __fswahb32(__u32 val)
>> * __swab16 - return a byteswapped 16-bit value
>> * @x: value to byteswap
>> */
>> +#ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP16__
>> +#define __swab16(x) __builtin_bswap16((__u16)(x))
>> +#else
>> #define __swab16(x) \
>> (__builtin_constant_p((__u16)(x)) ? \
>> ___constant_swab16(x) : \
>> __fswab16(x))
>> +#endif
>>
>> /**
>> * __swab32 - return a byteswapped 32-bit value
>> * @x: value to byteswap
>> */
>> +#ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP32__
>> +#define __swab32(x) __builtin_bswap32((__u32)(x))
>> +#else
>> #define __swab32(x) \
>> (__builtin_constant_p((__u32)(x)) ? \
>> ___constant_swab32(x) : \
>> __fswab32(x))
>> +#endif
>>
>> /**
>> * __swab64 - return a byteswapped 64-bit value
>> * @x: value to byteswap
>> */
>> +#ifdef __HAVE_BUILTIN_BSWAP64__
>> +#define __swab64(x) __builtin_bswap64((__u64)(x))
>> +#else
>> #define __swab64(x) \
>> (__builtin_constant_p((__u64)(x)) ? \
>> ___constant_swab64(x) : \
>> __fswab64(x))
>> +#endif
>>
>> /**
>> * __swahw32 - return a word-swapped 32-bit value
>>
The patch works. Thanks.
>
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>Josh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-04 19:45 [PATCH] asm-generic: force inlining of some atomic_long operations Denys Vlasenko
2016-02-04 19:45 ` [PATCH] force inlining of some byteswap operations Denys Vlasenko
2016-02-05 7:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-13 3:36 ` This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force inlining of some byteswap operations) Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-13 12:12 ` Denys Vlasenko
2016-04-13 12:36 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-13 15:15 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-13 16:55 ` James Bottomley
2016-04-13 17:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-14 15:29 ` Denys Vlasenko
2016-04-14 15:57 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-14 17:09 ` Denys Vlasenko
2016-04-15 5:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-15 13:47 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-15 22:20 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-16 9:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-18 13:39 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-18 14:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-18 14:12 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-18 14:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-19 8:52 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-04-19 13:56 ` [PATCH] scsi: fc: force inlining of wwn conversion functions Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-22 23:17 ` Quinn Tran
2016-04-25 16:07 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-26 2:40 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-04-26 3:37 ` James Bottomley
2016-04-26 7:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-26 8:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-04-26 10:05 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-26 13:06 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-04-26 15:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-26 22:36 ` James Bottomley
2016-04-27 0:44 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-04-27 11:05 ` Martin Jambor
2016-04-27 21:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-28 14:58 ` Chris Metcalf
2016-04-28 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-28 15:48 ` Chris Metcalf
2016-04-27 22:00 ` [PATCH, RFT] byteswap: try to avoid __builtin_constant_p gcc bug Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-27 22:11 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-04-28 16:27 ` Quinn Tran [this message]
2016-04-16 7:42 ` This patch triggers a bad gcc bug (was Re: [PATCH] force inlining of some byteswap operations) Arnd Bergmann
2016-04-18 13:22 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-02-04 19:45 ` [PATCH] force inlining of unaligned byteswap operations Denys Vlasenko
2016-02-05 7:28 ` Ingo Molnar
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