Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2021-03-30

Re: [PATCH v9] MIPS: force use FR=0 for FPXX binaries

From: YunQiang Su <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-29 05:10:19
Also in: stable

YunQiang Su [off-list ref] 于2021年3月22日周一 上午10:00写道:
The MIPS FPU may have 3 mode:
  FR=0: MIPS I style, all of the FPR are single.
  FR=1: all 32 FPR can be double.
  FRE: redirecting the rw of odd-FPR to the upper 32bit of even-double FPR.

The binary may have 3 mode:
  FP32: can only work with FR=0 and FRE mode
  FPXX: can work with all of FR=0/FR=1/FRE mode.
  FP64: can only work with FR=1 mode

Some binary, for example the output of golang, may be mark as FPXX,
while in fact they are FP32. It is caused by the bug of design and linker:
  Object produced by pure Go has no FP annotation while in fact they are FP32;
  if we link them with the C module which marked as FPXX,
  the result will be marked as FPXX. If these fake-FPXX binaries is executed
  in FR=1 mode, some problem will happen.

In Golang, now we add the FP32 annotation, so the future golang programs
won't have this problem. While for the existing binaries, we need a
kernel workaround.
We meet a new problem in Debian: with the O32_FP64 enabled kernel,
mips64el may also be affected.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983583


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Currently, FR=1 mode is used for all FPXX binary if O32_FP64 supported is enabled,
it makes some wrong behivour of the binaries.
Since FPXX binary can work with both FR=1 and FR=0, we force it to use FR=0.

Reference:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180828210612/https://dmz-portal.mips.com/wiki/MIPS_O32_ABI_-_FR0_and_FR1_Interlinking

https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/239217
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/237058

Signed-off-by: YunQiang Su <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.19+
---
v7->v8->v9:
        Rollback to use FR=1 for FPXX on R6 CPU.

v6->v7:
        Use FRE mode for pre-R6 binaries on R6 CPU.

v5->v6:
        Rollback to V3, aka remove config option.

v4->v5:
        Fix CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FPXX_USE_FR0 usage: if -> ifdef

v3->v4:
        introduce a config option: CONFIG_MIPS_O32_FPXX_USE_FR0

v2->v3:
        commit message: add Signed-off-by and Cc to stable.

v1->v2:
        Fix bad commit message: in fact, we are switching to FR=0


 arch/mips/kernel/elf.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c b/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c
index 7b045d2a0b51..554561d5c1f8 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/elf.c
@@ -232,11 +232,16 @@ int arch_check_elf(void *_ehdr, bool has_interpreter, void *_interp_ehdr,
         *   that inherently require the hybrid FP mode.
         * - If FR1 and FRDEFAULT is true, that means we hit the any-abi or
         *   fpxx case. This is because, in any-ABI (or no-ABI) we have no FPU
-        *   instructions so we don't care about the mode. We will simply use
-        *   the one preferred by the hardware. In fpxx case, that ABI can
-        *   handle both FR=1 and FR=0, so, again, we simply choose the one
-        *   preferred by the hardware. Next, if we only use single-precision
-        *   FPU instructions, and the default ABI FPU mode is not good
+        *   instructions so we don't care about the mode.
+        *   In fpxx case, that ABI can handle all of FR=1/FR=0/FRE mode.
+        *   Here, we need to use FR=0 mode instead of FR=1, because some binaries
+        *   may be mark as FPXX by mistake due to bugs of design and linker:
+        *      The object produced by pure Go has no FP annotation,
+        *      then is treated as any-ABI by linker, although in fact they are FP32;
+        *      if any-ABI object is linked with FPXX object, the result will be mark as FPXX.
+        *      Then the problem happens: run FP32 binaries in FR=1 mode.
+        * - If we only use single-precision FPU instructions,
+        *   and the default ABI FPU mode is not good
         *   (ie single + any ABI combination), we set again the FPU mode to the
         *   one is preferred by the hardware. Next, if we know that the code
         *   will only use single-precision instructions, shown by single being
@@ -248,8 +253,9 @@ int arch_check_elf(void *_ehdr, bool has_interpreter, void *_interp_ehdr,
         */
        if (prog_req.fre && !prog_req.frdefault && !prog_req.fr1)
                state->overall_fp_mode = FP_FRE;
-       else if ((prog_req.fr1 && prog_req.frdefault) ||
-                (prog_req.single && !prog_req.frdefault))
+       else if (prog_req.fr1 && prog_req.frdefault)
+               state->overall_fp_mode = cpu_has_mips_r6 ? FP_FR1 : FP_FR0;
+       else if (prog_req.single && !prog_req.frdefault)
                /* Make sure 64-bit MIPS III/IV/64R1 will not pick FR1 */
                state->overall_fp_mode = ((raw_current_cpu_data.fpu_id & MIPS_FPIR_F64) &&
                                          cpu_has_mips_r2_r6) ?
--
2.20.1

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YunQiang Su
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