Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen: arm: arm64: Fix memory cloberring issues during VFP save restore.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 16:08 +0530, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote:
> This patch addresses memory cloberring issue mentioed by Julien Grall
> with my earlier patch -
> Ref:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/devel/316247
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  xen/arch/arm/arm64/vfp.c |   70 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/vfp.c b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/vfp.c
> index c09cf0c..62f56a3 100644
> --- a/xen/arch/arm/arm64/vfp.c
> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/arm64/vfp.c
> @@ -8,23 +8,24 @@ void vfp_save_state(struct vcpu *v)
>      if ( !cpu_has_fp )
>          return;
>  
> -    asm volatile("stp q0, q1, [%0, #16 * 0]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q2, q3, [%0, #16 * 2]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q4, q5, [%0, #16 * 4]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q6, q7, [%0, #16 * 6]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q8, q9, [%0, #16 * 8]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q10, q11, [%0, #16 * 10]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q12, q13, [%0, #16 * 12]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q14, q15, [%0, #16 * 14]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q16, q17, [%0, #16 * 16]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q18, q19, [%0, #16 * 18]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q20, q21, [%0, #16 * 20]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q22, q23, [%0, #16 * 22]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q24, q25, [%0, #16 * 24]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q26, q27, [%0, #16 * 26]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q28, q29, [%0, #16 * 28]\n\t"
> -                 "stp q30, q31, [%0, #16 * 30]\n\t"
> -                 :: "r" ((char *)(&v->arch.vfp.fpregs)): "memory");
> +    asm volatile("stp q0, q1, [%1, #16 * 0]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q2, q3, [%1, #16 * 2]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q4, q5, [%1, #16 * 4]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q6, q7, [%1, #16 * 6]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q8, q9, [%1, #16 * 8]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q10, q11, [%1, #16 * 10]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q12, q13, [%1, #16 * 12]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q14, q15, [%1, #16 * 14]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q16, q17, [%1, #16 * 16]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q18, q19, [%1, #16 * 18]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q20, q21, [%1, #16 * 20]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q22, q23, [%1, #16 * 22]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q24, q25, [%1, #16 * 24]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q26, q27, [%1, #16 * 26]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q28, q29, [%1, #16 * 28]\n\t"
> +                 "stp q30, q31, [%1, #16 * 30]\n\t"
> +                 :"=Q" (*v->arch.vfp.fpregs): "r" (v->arch.vfp.fpregs)
> +                 : "memory");

The point of this change was to be able to drop the memory clobbers.

George, I'd like to take this in 4.4 if possible -- I wanted to get the
baseline functionality fixed for 4.4 ASAP since it was quite a big hole
which is why I committed without waiting for this respin.

The issue is that the patch which was committed yesterday clobbers all
of memory and not just the bits the inline asm touches.

Ian.


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