Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch 1/3 v2] x86/irq: local_irq_restore() should not blindly popf

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 22.10.13 at 11:28, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 22.10.13 at 10:56, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 22/10/13 09:35, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> Further I have a hard time seeing how the "orw" used above
>>> can even have built successfully: If a register gets picked
>>> (which ought to be the common case), opcode suffix and
>>> register name ought to collide. And "orw" is a bad choice here
>>> anyway, in that this is a 2-byte write following an 8-byte one.
>> 
>> GCC correctly picks a 2-byte register given the orw.  Looking at the
>> disassembly, it usually chooses %r12w
> 
> Try compiling this
> 
> void test(unsigned long x) {
>       asm volatile("orw %0, (%0)" :: "ri" (x));
> }
> 
> with a 32-bit gcc (or with -m32). In fact I'm surprised the assembler
> doesn't generate a warning (or even error) in the 64-bit case - this
> very much smells like a bug (and I looked at that code the other day
> and got the impression that the 64-bit one would be _less_ forgiving
> here).

See http://www.sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-10/msg00358.html.

Jan


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