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authorBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2024-06-18 21:57:27 +0200
committerBorislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>2024-07-01 12:41:11 +0200
commit0d3db1f14abb4eb28613fbeb1e2ad92bac76debf (patch)
treec486fcf7f0476fdc2191c22af2bd432bdf5f3481 /tools/objtool/Documentation
parentf776e41fdcc4141876ef6f297318ab04c2382eb7 (diff)
x86/alternatives, kvm: Fix a couple of CALLs without a frame pointer
objtool complains: arch/x86/kvm/kvm.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0xc5: call without frame pointer save/setup vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0x2eb: call without frame pointer save/setup Make sure %rSP is an output operand to the respective asm() statements. The test_cc() hunk and ALT_OUTPUT_SP() courtesy of peterz. Also from him add some helpful debugging info to the documentation. Now on to the explanations: tl;dr: The alternatives macros are pretty fragile. If I do ALT_OUTPUT_SP(output) in order to be able to package in a %rsp reference for objtool so that a stack frame gets properly generated, the inline asm input operand with positional argument 0 in clear_page(): "0" (page) gets "renumbered" due to the added : "+r" (current_stack_pointer), "=D" (page) and then gcc says: ./arch/x86/include/asm/page_64.h:53:9: error: inconsistent operand constraints in an ‘asm’ The fix is to use an explicit "D" constraint which points to a singleton register class (gcc terminology) which ends up doing what is expected here: the page pointer - input and output - should be in the same %rdi register. Other register classes have more than one register in them - example: "r" and "=r" or "A": ‘A’ The ‘a’ and ‘d’ registers. This class is used for instructions that return double word results in the ‘ax:dx’ register pair. Single word values will be allocated either in ‘ax’ or ‘dx’. so using "D" and "=D" just works in this particular case. And yes, one would say, sure, why don't you do "+D" but then: : "+r" (current_stack_pointer), "+D" (page) : [old] "i" (clear_page_orig), [new1] "i" (clear_page_rep), [new2] "i" (clear_page_erms), : "cc", "memory", "rax", "rcx") now find the Waldo^Wcomma which throws a wrench into all this. Because that silly macro has an "input..." consume-all last macro arg and in it, one is supposed to supply input *and* clobbers, leading to silly syntax snafus. Yap, they need to be cleaned up, one fine day... Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202406141648.jO9qNGLa-lkp@intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240625112056.GDZnqoGDXgYuWBDUwu@fat_crate.local
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diff --git a/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt b/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt
index fe39c2a8ef0d..7c3ee959b63c 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt
+++ b/tools/objtool/Documentation/objtool.txt
@@ -284,6 +284,25 @@ the objtool maintainers.
Otherwise the stack frame may not get created before the call.
+ objtool can help with pinpointing the exact function where it happens:
+
+ $ OBJTOOL_ARGS="--verbose" make arch/x86/kvm/
+
+ arch/x86/kvm/kvm.o: warning: objtool: .altinstr_replacement+0xc5: call without frame pointer save/setup
+ arch/x86/kvm/kvm.o: warning: objtool: em_loop.part.0+0x29: (alt)
+ arch/x86/kvm/kvm.o: warning: objtool: em_loop.part.0+0x0: <=== (sym)
+ LD [M] arch/x86/kvm/kvm-intel.o
+ 0000 0000000000028220 <em_loop.part.0>:
+ 0000 28220: 0f b6 47 61 movzbl 0x61(%rdi),%eax
+ 0004 28224: 3c e2 cmp $0xe2,%al
+ 0006 28226: 74 2c je 28254 <em_loop.part.0+0x34>
+ 0008 28228: 48 8b 57 10 mov 0x10(%rdi),%rdx
+ 000c 2822c: 83 f0 05 xor $0x5,%eax
+ 000f 2822f: 48 c1 e0 04 shl $0x4,%rax
+ 0013 28233: 25 f0 00 00 00 and $0xf0,%eax
+ 0018 28238: 81 e2 d5 08 00 00 and $0x8d5,%edx
+ 001e 2823e: 80 ce 02 or $0x2,%dh
+ ...
2. file.o: warning: objtool: .text+0x53: unreachable instruction