[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] eal_common_cpuflags: Fix %rbx corruption, and simplify the code

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 08:58:31AM +0000, De Lara Guarch, Pablo wrote:
> Hi Neil,
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> >> What was the value of RTE_COMPILE_TIME_CPUFLAGS when you built your library?  If you added defines for flag support that are not tested for yet in the cpu_feature_table, that would be the error you would see I think
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> >RTE_COMPILE_TIME_CPUFLAGS= >RTE_CPUFLAG_SSE,RTE_CPUFLAG_SSE2,RTE_CPUFLAG_SSE3,RTE_CPUFLAG_SSSE3,RTE_CPUFLAG_SSE4_1,RTE_CPUFLAG_SSE4_2,RTE_CPUFLAG_AES,RTE_CPUFLAG_PCLMULQDQ,RTE_CPUFLAG_AVX
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> >For gcc_version >=4.6, that value is the same, of course (and all those flags are supported). So it has to be something else...
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> Silly me, I just saw what was hapenning. There are two missing brackets in the loop:
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> for (i = 0; i < sizeof(compile_time_flags)/sizeof(compile_time_flags[0]); i++) {
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> ret = rte_cpu_get_flag_enabled(compile_time_flags[i]);
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> if (ret < 0) {
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> fprintf(stderr,
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>   "ERROR: CPU feature flag lookup failed with error %d\n",
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>   ret);
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> exit(1);
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> }
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> if (!ret) {
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> fprintf(stderr,
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>   "ERROR: This system does not support \"%s\".\n"
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>   "Please check that RTE_MACHINE is set correctly.\n",
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>   cpu_feature_table[compile_time_flags[i]].name);
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> exit(1);
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> }
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> }
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> So, basically, "i" was size of the array +1 after the loop and only the return value was being checked for the last item. Not sure why higher versions of gcc do not catch this.
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Oh wow, yes, the if conditionals definately should be checked for each iteration
of the for loop. Good eye.

Still though, seems like a bug in gcc to check the state of the loop index on
exit, when its never used to index the array at that value.  Seems a bit like
this bug:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45180

Thomas I'll send a patch to fix this directly
Neil

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> Thanks,
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> Pablo de Lara
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> DPDK SW Engineer
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