Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Aug 2014 09:34:56 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.15 33/37] Fix gcc-4.9.0 miscompilation of load_balance() in scheduler | From | Alexei Starovoitov <> |
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:14 AM, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 03:36:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: d>> I don't understand how you guys can be so cavalier about a compiler >> bug that has already resulted in actual real problems. You bring up > > I have no problem with a -fno-var-tracking-assignments workaround for > compilers that have the PR61801 wrong-code bug. What I have problem with > is with disabling it even for compilers that have that bug fixed. > That is in essence disabling a useful feature just because it could have > other bugs. If my memory serves me well, PR61801 is the only wrong-code > I remember caused by -fvar-tracking-assignments during the 5 years since > it has been introduced into gcc. Sure, there have been several > -fcompare-debug bugs, where we generated slightly different code between > -g and -g0, and as you mentioned we have one still pending (Vladimir is > working on it right now), but that is mainly relevant to the case where
I think gcc guys are taking a wrong lesson out of this. kernel doesn't care too much whether gcc produces the same binary with -g and -g0. kernel developers also don't care about amount debug info for variables, but they care about hard to find compiler bugs. In this case sched2 mishap around debug_insn was a symptom. The root cause is lack of attention to -mno-red-zone. Kernel is not another user space program where data/control flow analysis is all compiler need to make things right. -mno-red-zone lesson exposes lack of 'interrupt' concept in compiler. I think there has to be some infra put in place to make sure that it's not just a scheduling barrier. Otherwise next bug will pop much sooner than 5 years and it will not be related to debug info at all. In this sense Steven's perl script to detect red-zone violations did more to re-enable var-tracking than -fcompare-debug fixes.
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