[PATCH] powerpc: workaround clang codegen bug in dcbz

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:16 PM Segher Boessenkool
<segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 04:30:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 3:49 PM Segher Boessenkool
> > <segher at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 09:34:28AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > > Upon a second look, I think the issue is that the "Z" is an input argument
> > > > when it should be an output. clang decides that it can make a copy of the
> > > > input and pass that into the inline asm. This is not the most efficient
> > > > way, but it seems entirely correct according to the constraints.
> > >
> > > Most dcb* (and all icb*) do not change the memory pointed to.  The
> > > memory is an input here, logically as well, and that is obvious.
> >
> > Ah, right. I had only thought of dcbz here, but you are right that using
> > an output makes little sense for the others.
> >
> > readl() is another example where powerpc currently uses "Z" for an
> > input, which illustrates this even better.
>
> in_le32 and friends?  Yeah, huh.  If LLVM copies that to the stack as
> well, its (not byte reversing) read will be atomic just fine, so things
> will still work correctly.

byteorder is fine, the problem I was thinking of is when moving the load/store
instructions around the barriers that synchronize with DMA, or turning
them into different-size accesses. Changing two consecutive 16-bit mmio reads
into an unaligned 32-bit read will rarely have the intended effect ;-)

       Arnd