Re: [PATCH 1/5] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v8)

On 18/04/2019 16:41, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

----- On Apr 18, 2019, at 11:33 AM, Szabolcs Nagy Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com wrote:

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On 18/04/2019 14:17, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

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----- On Apr 17, 2019, at 3:56 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com wrote:

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----- On Apr 17, 2019, at 12:17 PM, Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com wrote:

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

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+/* RSEQ_SIG is a signature required before each abort handler code.
+
+   It is a 32-bit value that maps to actual architecture code compiled
+   into applications and libraries. It needs to be defined for each
+   architecture. When choosing this value, it needs to be taken into
+   account that generating invalid instructions may have ill effects on
+   tools like objdump, and may also have impact on the CPU speculative
+   execution efficiency in some cases.  */
+
+#define RSEQ_SIG 0xd428bc00	/* BRK #0x45E0.  */

After further investigation, we should probably do the following
to handle compiling with -mbig-endian on aarch64, which generates
binaries with mixed code vs data endianness (little endian code,
big endian data):

First, the comment on RSEQ_SIG should specify whether it is to be
interpreted in the code or the data endianness.

Right. The signature passed as argument to the rseq registration
system call needs to be in data endianness (currently exposed kernel
ABI).

Ideally for userspace, we want to define a signature in code endianness
that happens to nicely match specific code patterns.

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For aarch64, I think we can simply do:

/*
 * aarch64 -mbig-endian generates mixed endianness code vs data:
 * little-endian code and big-endian data. Ensure the RSEQ_SIG signature
 * matches code endianness.
 */
#define RSEQ_SIG_CODE   0xd428bc00      /* BRK #0x45E0.  */

#ifdef __ARM_BIG_ENDIAN
#define RSEQ_SIG_DATA   0x00bc28d4      /* BRK #0x45E0.  */
#else
#define RSEQ_SIG_DATA   RSEQ_SIG_CODE
#endif

#define RSEQ_SIG        RSEQ_SIG_DATA

Feedback is most welcome,

so the RSEQ_SIG value is supposed to be used with .word
in asm instead of .inst?

We want a .inst so it translates into a valid trap instruction.
It's better to trap in case program execution reaches this
by mistake (makes debugging easier).

that does not make sense to me.

".inst" is an asm directive that requires a the value to
be the same on BE and LE (normal insn encoding).

".word" is an asm directive that requires the value to
use swapped encoding on BE (if it's used in the instruction
stream it will create a data mapping symbol and disasm to
.word value instead of the instruction mnemonics).

so which one is it?

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i don't think we use __ARM_* in public headers currently,
but hopefully aarch64_be compilers implement it.

Can I use #if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__  then ?

hm, i'd either use #ifdef __AARCH64EB__ (since we already use it)
or the portable #include endian.h and __BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN