* [9fans] assembler scheduling
2004-11-05 9:48 [9fans] replica problem cej
@ 2004-11-05 10:05 ` Tim Newsham
2004-11-05 11:41 ` Charles Forsyth
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From: Tim Newsham @ 2004-11-05 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Eek! The assembler messed with my code. Here's the original going
into ka. Notice the *** line:
TEXT syslink(SB), $-4
MOVW R2, R10
MOVW $setSB(SB), R2
MOVW $mach0(SB), R14
MOVW (4*2)(R14), R13 /* m->proc */
MOVW (4*2)(R13), R9 /* m->proc->kstack */
MOVW R1, (KSTACK-UREGSZ+4*1)(R9) /* SP */
MOVW R10, (KSTACK-UREGSZ+4*2)(R9) /* SB */
MOVW R5, (KSTACK-UREGSZ+4*5)(R9) /* PROC */
MOVW R6, (KSTACK-UREGSZ+4*6)(R9) /* MACH */
ADD $(KSTACK-UREGSZ), R9, R1
MOVW R13, R5
MOVW R14, R6
MOVW R2, (4*2)(R1) /* SB */
MOVW R3, (4*3)(R1) /* global register */
MOVW R4, (4*4)(R1) /* global register */
MOVW R7, (4*7)(R1) /* syscall # */
MOVW TBR, R20
MOVW R20, (4*(32+1))(R1) /* TBR */
AND $~0x1F, R19
MOVW R19, (4*(32+2))(R1) /* PSR */
MOVW R18, (4*(32+3))(R1) /* nPC */
MOVW R17, (4*(32+4))(R1) /* PC */
*** RESTORE R0, R0
/* now our registers R8-R31 are same as before trap */
MOVW R15, (4*15)(R1)
MOVW $setSB(SB), R2
MOVW R1, R7 /* pointer to Ureg */
SUB $8, R1
MOVW $SYSPSR, R8
MOVW R8, PSR
JMPL syscall(SB)
/* R7 contains return value from syscall */
Got turned into:
syslink: or %g0, %g2, %o2
syslink+0x4: sethi %hi(0xe0071400), %sp
syslink+0x8: add %sp, 0x128, %g2
syslink+0xc: ld [%g2+0x46c], %sp
syslink+0x10: ld [%sp+0x8], %o5
syslink+0x14: ld [%o5+0x8], %o1
syslink+0x18: st %g1, [%o1+0xf6c]
syslink+0x1c: st %o2, [%o1+0xf70]
syslink+0x20: st %g5, [%o1+0xf7c]
syslink+0x24: st %g6, [%o1+0xf80]
syslink+0x28: add %o1, 0xf68, %g1
syslink+0x2c: or %g0, %o5, %g5
syslink+0x30: or %g0, %sp, %g6
syslink+0x34: st %g2, [%g1+0x8]
syslink+0x38: st %g3, [%g1+0xc]
syslink+0x3c: st %g4, [%g1+0x10]
syslink+0x40: st %g7, [%g1+0x1c]
syslink+0x44: rd %tbr, %l4
syslink+0x48: st %l4, [%g1+0x84]
syslink+0x4c: and %l3, 0xffffffe0, %l3
syslink+0x50: st %l3, [%g1+0x88]
syslink+0x54: st %l2, [%g1+0x8c]
syslink+0x58: st %l1, [%g1+0x90]
syslink+0x5c: st %o7, [%g1+0x3c]
syslink+0x60: sethi %hi(0xe0071400), %sp
syslink+0x64: add %sp, 0x128, %g2
syslink+0x68: or %g0, %g1, %g7
syslink+0x6c: sub %g1, 0x8, %g1
syslink+0x70: sethi %hi(0x1c00), %sp
syslink+0x74: add %sp, 0x3a0, %o0
syslink+0x78: wr %o0, 0x0, %psr
syslink+0x7c: call p9:syscall
syslink+0x80: *** restore %g0, %g0, %g0
syslink+0x84: add %g1, 0x8, %g1
syslink+0x88: ld [%g1+0x88], %o0
Notice it moved the RESTORE instruction into the delay slot of the
call. In this case this causes bad things to happen, since RESTORE
changes the registers (I guess since ka doesn't use windows it is
unaware of this special meaning of restore).
How can I override this scheduling of the RESTORE instruction?
(I'd prefer to let it continue to schedule other statements and
not completely turn of scheduling).
Tim N.
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