Re: [PATCH] arm: Silence gcc warnings about arch ABI drift

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 09:26:51AM +0000, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 07:21:11AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

quoted

I think these should be addressed in bcachefs instead.
While it's not the fault of bcachefs that the calling
convention changed between gcc versions, have a look at
the actual structure layout:

struct bch_val {
        __u64           __nothing[0];
};
struct bpos {
        /*
         * Word order matches machine byte order - btree code treats a bpos as a
         * single large integer, for search/comparison purposes
         *
         * Note that wherever a bpos is embedded in another on disk data
         * structure, it has to be byte swabbed when reading in metadata that
         * wasn't written in native endian order:
         */
#if __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_LITTLE_ENDIAN__
        __u32           snapshot;
        __u64           offset;
        __u64           inode;
#elif __BYTE_ORDER__ == __ORDER_BIG_ENDIAN__
        __u64           inode;
        __u64           offset;         /* Points to end of extent - sectors */
        __u32           snapshot;
#else
#error edit for your odd byteorder.
#endif
} __packed
struct bch_backpointer {
        struct bch_val          v;
        __u8                    btree_id;
        __u8                    level;
        __u8                    data_type;
        __u64                   bucket_offset:40;
        __u32                   bucket_len;
        struct bpos             pos;
} __packed __aligned(8);

This is not something that should ever be passed by value
into a function.

+1 - bcachefs definitely needs fixing. Passing all that as an argument
not only means that it has to be read into registers, but also when
accessing members, it has to be extracted from those registers as well.

Passing that by argument is utterly insane.

If the compiler people can't figure out a vaguely efficient way to pass
a small struct by value, that's their problem - from the way you
describe it, I have to wonder at what insanity is going on there.

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