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

Nick Lewycky nlewycky at google.com
Fri May 8 21:43:20 CEST 2015


On 8 May 2015 at 12:06, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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
>

Attached!


> [...]
>
> >      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
>

Fixed. Thanks!


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