[Tarantool-patches] [PATCH] jit: fix cdatanum addressing for GC64 mode on x86

[Sergey Kaplun]

Hi!

Thanks for the patch!
I have only one nitpick/question regarding to commit message.

Otherwise, LGTM.

On 14.10.20, Igor Munkin wrote:
> This patch fixes the regression introduced in scope of
> 5f6775ae0e141422193ad9b492806834064027ca ('core: introduce various
> platform metrics'). As a result of the patch <cdatanum> displacement is
> misencoded when GC64 mode is enabled.
> 
> In X86 long mode 32-bit displacement is encoded either via SIB byte or
> is addressed relatively to RIP register value. The first approach is
> used in JIT for 32-bit addresses (i.e. when GC64 mode is disabled), but
> doesn't work for 64-bit ones. As a result all addresses to GG_State
> contents to be "hardcoded" on the trace are encoded relatively to
> RID_DISPATCH register (i.e. callee-safe R14 register) containing global
> dispatch table. For this purpose this register is not used by the JIT
> register allocator in GC64 build and not spoiled throughout LuaJIT VM
> cycle (and therefore trace execution).
> 
> NB: Since R14 is the additional GRP, the <add> instruction ought to be
> REX-prefixed.

Nit: Also REX prefix is needed to specify 64-bit operand size, isn't
it?

> 
> Follows up tarantool/tarantool#5187
> 
> Reported-by: Vladislav Shpilevoy <v.shpilevoy at tarantool.org>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Munkin <imun at tarantool.org>
> ---
> 
> Branch: https://github.com/tarantool/luajit/compare/imun/gh-5187-fix-disp-encoding-on-gc64
> 
> Unforunately, CI is red, but those failures relates to the known build
> issues. Nevertheless I tested the patch manually on tntmac04 and faced
> no failures.
> 
>  src/lj_asm_x86.h | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lj_asm_x86.h b/src/lj_asm_x86.h
> index 959fc2d..767bf6f 100644
> --- a/src/lj_asm_x86.h
> +++ b/src/lj_asm_x86.h
> @@ -1837,8 +1837,13 @@ static void asm_cnew(ASMState *as, IRIns *ir)
>  
>    /* Increment cdatanum counter by address directly. */
>    emit_i8(as, 1);
> +#if LJ_GC64
> +  emit_rmro(as, XO_ARITHi8, XOg_ADD|REX_64, RID_DISPATCH,
> +	    dispofs(as, &J2G(as->J)->gc.cdatanum));
> +#else
>    emit_rmro(as, XO_ARITHi8, XOg_ADD, RID_NONE,
>  	    ptr2addr(&J2G(as->J)->gc.cdatanum));
> +#endif
>    /* Combine initialization of marked, gct and ctypeid. */
>    emit_movtomro(as, RID_ECX, RID_RET, offsetof(GCcdata, marked));
>    emit_gri(as, XG_ARITHi(XOg_OR), RID_ECX,
> -- 
> 2.25.0
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Sergey Kaplun