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From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@arndb.de>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Ilie Halip <ilie.halip@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: objtool warning "uses BP as a scratch register" with clang-9
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:12:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7fb03b2951e04c5f9b2529a6b8d5c746@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a33LQAzsReSUyB_aZxkws28RP=oJocQXonYbxxBky7aaQ@mail.gmail.com>

From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 30 August 2019 16:59
...
> > Or even better, it would be great if we could get Clang to change their
> > memset() insertion heuristics, so that KASAN acts more like non-KASAN
> > code in that regard.
> 
> I suspect that's going to be harder. The clang-9 release is going to be
> soon, and that change probably wouldn't be considered a regression fix.
> 
> Maybe Nick can find what happens, but I don't actually see any reference
> to KASAN in the llvm source code related to the memset generation.
> 
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/master/lib/CodeGen/CGExprAgg.cpp#L1803
> has a check for >16 bytes, but that again does not match my observation.

That looks like the code for initialising a local structure variable,
not for merging 'random' writes into a memset().

	David

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30 16:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-27 12:30 Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-27 14:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-27 14:59   ` Ilie Halip
2019-08-27 19:00     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-27 19:22       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-27 19:47         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-27 21:21           ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-08-28  9:00             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-28 14:06               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-28 14:51               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-28 15:29                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-28 17:57                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-28 19:41                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-28 15:13               ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-28 15:22                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-28 15:28                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-28 15:40                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-29 23:24                       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-30 10:44                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-30 15:14                           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-30 15:58                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-30 16:12                               ` David Laight [this message]
2019-08-30 16:03                             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-29 17:34                     ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-29 18:30                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-29 20:21                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-08-29 22:26                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 15:02                             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-30 15:39                               ` David Laight
2019-08-30 15:48                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 15:55                                 ` David Laight
2019-08-30 16:01                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-08-30 16:42                                     ` David Laight
2019-08-30 16:49                                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-02  9:02                                   ` David Laight
2019-09-04 11:53                         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-08-28 22:13         ` Nick Desaulniers
2019-08-29  0:28           ` Josh Poimboeuf

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