Hi Roman,
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 07:36:40PM +0300, Roman Zhuykov wrote:
> > > In pr84524.c we got a loop with an extended inline asm:
> > > asm volatile ("" : "+r" (v))
> > > which also gives us a “surprising” situation Alexander predicts.
> > >
> > > For sched-deps scanner such volatile asm is a “true barrier” and we
> > > create dependencies to almost all other instructions, while DF scanners
> > > don’t give us such information.
> >
> > There is no such thing as a "true barrier" in extended asm. The only thing
> > volatile asm means is that the asm has a side effect unknown to the
> > compiler;
> > this can *not* be a modification of a register or of memory contents, such
> > things are known by the compiler, that's what clobbers and "memory" clobber
> > are about.
>
> In sched-deps.c we got:
> case ASM_OPERANDS:
> case ASM_INPUT:
> {
> /* Traditional and volatile asm instructions must be considered to use
> and clobber all hard registers, all pseudo-registers and all of
> memory. So must TRAP_IF and UNSPEC_VOLATILE operations.
>
> Consider for instance a volatile asm that changes the fpu rounding
> mode. An insn should not be moved across this even if it only uses
> pseudo-regs because it might give an incorrectly rounded result. */
> if ((code != ASM_OPERANDS || MEM_VOLATILE_P (x))
> && !DEBUG_INSN_P (insn))
> reg_pending_barrier = TRUE_BARRIER;
> ...
This code was added in 1997 (r14770). In 2004 the documentation was
changed to clarify how things really work (r88999):
"Note that even a volatile @code{asm} instruction can be moved relative to
other code, including across jump instructions."
(followed by an example exactly about what this means for FPU control).
> I understand that mentioned “changing fpu rounding mode” example may
> not be relevant in current compiler. But we still got TRUE_BARRIER
> for all volatile asms.
> > > Maybe it is a good idea somehow re-implement modulo scheduler using only
> > > one scanner instead of two, but at the moment the best thing to do is to
> > > detect the situation earlier and skip such loops.
> >
> > Or fix the broken code...
>
> I’m not sure what you mean here,
I mean have the modulo scheduler implement the correct asm semantics, not
some more restrictive thing that gets it into conflicts with DF, etc.
I don't think this will turn out to be a problem in any way. Some invalid
asm will break, sure.
Segher
