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SubjectRe: [x86] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00740060

* Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 09:02:31PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 08:16:13PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> >
> > > Confirmed as gcc bug, filed http://gcc.gnu.org/PR58670 Seems all of
> > > 4.[6-9] miscompile it. Will have a look tomorrow unless somebody
> > > beats me to it. But historically, the case where asm goto labels
> > > jump to fallthru basic block had numerous problems in the past.
> >
> > That bug lists the component as middle end; this suggests x86_64 would
> > be vulnerable too, can you confirm? So far we've only observed the
> > wrong code on i386 targets, x86_64 targets appeared correct.
>
> Any target, the testcase in the bugzilla aborts on x86_64 with -O2, and
> even say on ppc64 (sure, one would have to rewrite the asm to have it
> fail at runtime).

Please let us know once you know enough about the bug to suggest
workarounds. Because it's a nice optimization even extra instruction(s)
would be acceptable I suspect: we could perhaps put a NOP into a slowpath,
with an (unused) goto to it, or something like that?

Thanks,

Ingo


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