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compiler-gcc.h: gcc-4.5 needs noclone and noinline on __naked functions

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A __naked function is defined in C but with a body completely implemented
by asm(), including any prologue and epilogue.  These asm() bodies expect
standard calling conventions for parameter passing.  Older GCCs implement
that correctly, but 4.[56] currently do not, see GCC PR44290.  In the
Linux kernel this breaks ARM, causing most arch/arm/mm/copypage-*.c
modules to get miscompiled, resulting in kernel crashes during bootup.

Part of the kernel fix is to augment the __naked function attribute to
also imply noinline and noclone.  This patch implements that, and has been
verified to fix boot failures with gcc-4.5 compiled 2.6.34 and 2.6.35-rc1
kernels.  The patch is a no-op with older GCCs.

Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mikael Pettersson 2010-06-29 15:05:25 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2952095c6b
commit 9c695203a7
2 changed files with 13 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/compiler-gcc.h
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@ -58,8 +58,12 @@
* naked functions because then mcount is called without stack and frame pointer
* being set up and there is no chance to restore the lr register to the value
* before mcount was called.
*
* The asm() bodies of naked functions often depend on standard calling conventions,
* therefore they must be noinline and noclone. GCC 4.[56] currently fail to enforce
* this, so we must do so ourselves. See GCC PR44290.
*/
#define __naked __attribute__((naked)) notrace
#define __naked __attribute__((naked)) noinline __noclone notrace
#define __noreturn __attribute__((noreturn))
@ -85,3 +89,7 @@
#define _gcc_header(x) __gcc_header(linux/compiler-gcc##x.h)
#define gcc_header(x) _gcc_header(x)
#include gcc_header(__GNUC__)
#if !defined(__noclone)
#define __noclone /* not needed */
#endif

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include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h
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@ -48,6 +48,10 @@
* unreleased. Really, we need to have autoconf for the kernel.
*/
#define unreachable() __builtin_unreachable()
/* Mark a function definition as prohibited from being cloned. */
#define __noclone __attribute__((__noclone__))
#endif
#endif