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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/x86: fix clang build with -O0
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 10:16:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57513CE3.60506@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1464941723-18154-1-git-send-email-thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>

Hi Thomas,

On 06/03/2016 10:15 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> From: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
> 
> Clang seems to have a bug with asm inside inline function rte_xabort():
> 
> rte_rtm.h:56:15: error: invalid operand for inline asm constraint 'i'
>         asm volatile(".byte 0xc6,0xf8,%P0" :: "i" (status) : "memory");
>                      ^
> 
> It is seen only when building with EXTRA_CFLAGS=-O0.
> 
> The workaround is to replace the inline function by a macro.
> 
> Fixes: ba7468997ea6 ("spinlock: add HTM lock elision for x86")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damjan Marion <damarion@cisco.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_rtm.h | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_rtm.h b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_rtm.h
> index d935641..0649f79 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_rtm.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/x86/rte_rtm.h
> @@ -50,11 +50,10 @@ void rte_xend(void)
>  	 asm volatile(".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xd5" ::: "memory");
>  }
>  
> -static __attribute__((__always_inline__)) inline
> -void rte_xabort(const unsigned int status)
> -{
> -	asm volatile(".byte 0xc6,0xf8,%P0" :: "i" (status) : "memory");
> -}
> +/* not an inline function to workaround a clang bug with -O0 */
> +#define rte_xabort(status) do { \
> +	asm volatile(".byte 0xc6,0xf8,%P0" :: "i" (status) : "memory"); \
> +} while (0)
>  
>  static __attribute__((__always_inline__)) inline
>  int rte_xtest(void)
> 

Generally speaking, it's not a good idea to replace a static inline by a
macro because it relaxes type checking. Looks ok in that case to
workaround the clang issue.

Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-03  8:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-03  8:15 Thomas Monjalon
2016-06-03  8:16 ` Olivier MATZ [this message]
2016-06-03  8:46   ` Thomas Monjalon

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