[PATCH] arm64: jump_label: use constraints "Si" instead of "i"

Fangrui Song maskray at google.com
Thu Feb 1 14:35:45 PST 2024


The generic constraint "i" seems to be copied from x86 or arm (and with
a redundant generic operand modifier "c"). It works with -fno-PIE but
not with -fPIE/-fPIC in GCC's aarch64 port.

The machine constraint "S", which denotes a symbol or label reference
with a constant offset, supports PIC and has been available in GCC since
2012 and in Clang since 7.0. However, Clang before 19 does not support
"S" on a symbol with a constant offset [1] (e.g.
`static_key_false(&nf_hooks_needed[pf][hook])` in
include/linux/netfilter.h), so we use "i" as a fallback.

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray at google.com>
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/80255 [1]

---
Changes from
arm64: jump_label: use constraint "S" instead of "i" (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240131065322.1126831-1-maskray@google.com/)

* Use "Si" as Ard suggested to support Clang<19
* Make branch a separate operand
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h
index 48ddc0f45d22..1f7d529be608 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/jump_label.h
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 
 #define JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE		AARCH64_INSN_SIZE
 
+/*
+ * Prefer the constraint "S" to support PIC with GCC. Clang before 19 does not
+ * support "S" on a symbol with a constant offset, so we use "i" as a fallback.
+ */
 static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key * const key,
 					       const bool branch)
 {
@@ -23,9 +27,9 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch(struct static_key * const key,
 		 "	.pushsection	__jump_table, \"aw\"	\n\t"
 		 "	.align		3			\n\t"
 		 "	.long		1b - ., %l[l_yes] - .	\n\t"
-		 "	.quad		%c0 - .			\n\t"
+		 "	.quad		%0 + %1 - .		\n\t"
 		 "	.popsection				\n\t"
-		 :  :  "i"(&((char *)key)[branch]) :  : l_yes);
+		 :  :  "Si"(key), "i"(branch) :  : l_yes);
 
 	return false;
 l_yes:
@@ -40,9 +44,9 @@ static __always_inline bool arch_static_branch_jump(struct static_key * const ke
 		 "	.pushsection	__jump_table, \"aw\"	\n\t"
 		 "	.align		3			\n\t"
 		 "	.long		1b - ., %l[l_yes] - .	\n\t"
-		 "	.quad		%c0 - .			\n\t"
+		 "	.quad		%0 + %1 - .		\n\t"
 		 "	.popsection				\n\t"
-		 :  :  "i"(&((char *)key)[branch]) :  : l_yes);
+		 :  :  "Si"(key), "i"(branch) :  : l_yes);
 
 	return false;
 l_yes:
-- 
2.43.0.594.gd9cf4e227d-goog




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