[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ff_h[yc]scale_fast_mmext always clobbers %rbx

Michael Niedermayer michaelni at gmx.at
Fri May 8 21:06:23 CEST 2015


On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 10:50:49AM -0700, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> On 6 May 2015 at 18:03, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 04:08:09PM -0700, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> > > On 6 May 2015 at 15:06, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 11:52:59AM -0700, Nick Lewycky wrote:
> > > > > Newer versions of clang will allocate %rbx as one of the inline asm
> > > > inputs,
> > > >
> > > > Thats great
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > even in PIC. This occurs when building ffmpeg with clang
> > > > -fsanitize=address
> > > > > -O1 -fPIE. Because the asm does clobber %bx whether PIC is on or off,
> > > > just
> > > > > include %bx in the clobber list regardless of whether PIC is on or
> > off.
> > > >
> > > > you cant include *bx in the clobber list with PIC
> > > > it breaks compilers that are less great, like gcc
> > > >
> > >
> > > Doh!! I did check for this, but only tried x86-64, not x86-32. Sorry!
> > >
> > > gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3
> > > > ../libswscale/x86/hscale_fast_bilinear_simd.c: In function
> > > > ‘ff_hyscale_fast_mmxext’:
> > > > ../libswscale/x86/hscale_fast_bilinear_simd.c:205:5: error: PIC
> > register
> > > > clobbered by ‘%ebx’ in ‘asm’
> > > > ../libswscale/x86/hscale_fast_bilinear_simd.c: In function
> > > > ‘ff_hcscale_fast_mmxext’:
> > > > ../libswscale/x86/hscale_fast_bilinear_simd.c:276:5: error: PIC
> > register
> > > > clobbered by ‘%ebx’ in ‘asm’
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > also what exactly are you trying to fix ?
> > > > or rather what exactly goes how exactly wrong with the code as it is
> > > > if rbx is used ?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ok, let's look at ff_hcscale_fast_mmext. Preprocessor directives
> > evaluated
> > > in PIC x86-64, the inline constraints work out to:
> > >
> > >         :: "m" (src1), "m" (dst1), "m" (filter), "m" (filterPos),
> > >            "m" (mmxextFilterCode), "m" (src2), "m"(dst2)
> > >           ,"m" (ebxsave)
> > >           ,"m"(retsave)
> > >         : "%"REG_a, "%"REG_c, "%"REG_d, "%"REG_S, "%"REG_D
> > >
> > > so clang looks at that and decides that it can pick src1 = (%r10), dst1 =
> > > (%r8), filter = (%r11), filterPos = (%r12), mmxextFilterCode = (%r15),
> > src2
> > > = (%rbx), dst2 = (%r14), ebxsave = (%r13), retsave = (%r9). The problem
> > > there is src2 being (%rbx).
> > >
> > > Now let's look at how we use them:
> > >
> > >         "mov                 %0, %%"REG_c"  \n\t"
> > >         "mov                 %1, %%"REG_D"  \n\t"
> > >         "mov                 %2, %%"REG_d"  \n\t"
> > >         "mov                 %3, %%"REG_b"  \n\t"  // Clobbers %rbx /
> > src2
> > > / %5 here
> > >         "xor          %%"REG_a", %%"REG_a"  \n\t"
> > >         PREFETCH"   (%%"REG_c")             \n\t"
> > >         PREFETCH" 32(%%"REG_c")             \n\t"
> > >         PREFETCH" 64(%%"REG_c")             \n\t"
> > >
> > >         CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE
> > >         CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE
> > >         CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE
> > >         CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE
> > >         "xor          %%"REG_a", %%"REG_a"  \n\t"
> > >         "mov                 %5, %%"REG_c"  \n\t"  // %5 is read too
> > late,
> > > we get %3 / filterPos instead
> > >         "mov                 %6, %%"REG_D"  \n\t"
> > >         PREFETCH"   (%%"REG_c")             \n\t"
> > >         PREFETCH" 32(%%"REG_c")             \n\t"
> > >         PREFETCH" 64(%%"REG_c")             \n\t"
> > >
> > >         CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE  // Crash...
> > >
> > > The two marked instructions are intended to refer to different contents.
> > > CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE moves RBX to ESI and calls mmxextFilterCode:
> > >
> > >         "movl            (%%"REG_b"), %%esi     \n\t"\
> > >         "call                    *%4            \n\t"\  // Crash...
> > >
> > > That callee ultimately segfaults:
> > >
> > > => 0x7fffefa45000:      movq   (%rdx,%rax,1),%mm3
> > > => 0x7fffefa45004:      movd   (%rcx,%rsi,1),%mm0
> > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > > 0x00007fffefa45004 in ?? ()
> > > => 0x7fffefa45004:      movd   (%rcx,%rsi,1),%mm0
> > >
> > > I'm trying to fix this segfault.
> > >
> > > also ideally changes to this code should be tested against gcc/clang/icc
> > > > of various versions with and without PIC, 32 and 64 bit
> > > > this code is more tricky than than the average so theres a good
> > > > change changes to it will break some compiler
> > > >
> > >
> > > I understand that, but I may not be able to test as many environments as
> > > you like. I'm going to give testing it my best effort, but I can tell you
> > > up front that I'm only going to test gcc and clang, on an x86 Ubuntu
> > > machine. I don't have ICC, so I can't test that.
> >
> > iam not sure it would work but, configure could easily test if
> > ebx can be put on the clobber list and that then could be used
> > in place of PIC in the checks
> >
> 
> I checked gcc 4.4, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, and clang 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 in 32 and 64-bit
> builds, and PIC vs. not, cross product thereof. The only one that emits
> this error is all versions of gcc in 32-bit mode with PIC enabled. On
> 64-bit, gcc and clang do the same thing, they'll spill BX if they want to
> preserve it.
> 
> Based on that, I decided we could sink the manual saving and restoring of
> ebx down to 32-bit+PIC mode, and just list it as a clobber in 64-bit mode
> regardless of the PIC setting. That works in every compiler and mode I
> tried.
> 
> Tested with make + make check + make fate but not "make fake SAMPLES=...".
> Updated patch attached! Let me know what you think.
> 
> and thanks for the detailed informaion
> >
> 
> No problem, thanks for the review!

please provide a git patch with commit message
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>      int i;
> +#if ARCH_X86_64
> +    uint64_t retsave;
> +#else
>  #if defined(PIC)
>      uint64_t ebxsave;
>  #endif
> -#if ARCH_X86_64
> -    uint64_t retsave;
>  #endif
>  
>      __asm__ volatile(
> -#if defined(PIC)
> -        "mov               %%"REG_b", %5        \n\t"
>  #if ARCH_X86_64
>          "mov               -8(%%rsp), %%"REG_a" \n\t"
> -        "mov               %%"REG_a", %6        \n\t"
> -#endif
> +        "mov               %%"REG_a", %5        \n\t"  // retsave
>  #else
> -#if ARCH_X86_64
> -        "mov               -8(%%rsp), %%"REG_a" \n\t"
> -        "mov               %%"REG_a", %5        \n\t"
> +#if defined(PIC)
> +        "mov               %%"REG_b", %5        \n\t"  // ebxsave
>  #endif
>  #endif
>          "pxor                  %%mm7, %%mm7     \n\t"
> @@ -256,28 +253,25 @@ void ff_hyscale_fast_mmxext(SwsContext *c, int16_t *dst,
>          CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE
>          CALL_MMXEXT_FILTER_CODE
>  
> -#if defined(PIC)
> -        "mov                      %5, %%"REG_b" \n\t"
> -#if ARCH_X86_64
> -        "mov                      %6, %%"REG_a" \n\t"
> -        "mov               %%"REG_a", -8(%%rsp) \n\t"
> -#endif
> -#else
>  #if ARCH_X86_64
>          "mov                      %5, %%"REG_a" \n\t"
>          "mov               %%"REG_a", -8(%%rsp) \n\t"
> +#else
> +#if defined(PIC)
> +        "mov                      %5, %%"REG_b" \n\t"
>  #endif
>  #endif
>          :: "m" (src), "m" (dst), "m" (filter), "m" (filterPos),
>             "m" (mmxextFilterCode)
> +#if ARCH_X86_64
> +          ,"m"(retsave)
> +#else
>  #if defined(PIC)
>            ,"m" (ebxsave)
>  #endif
> -#if ARCH_X86_64
> -          ,"m"(retsave)
>  #endif
>          : "%"REG_a, "%"REG_c, "%"REG_d, "%"REG_S, "%"REG_D
> -#if !defined(PIC)
> +#if ARCH_X86_64 || !defined(__PIC__)

this mixes __PIC__ and PIC


[...]

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