Re: [linus:master] BUILD REGRESSION a2e5790d841658485d642196dbb0927303d6c22f

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Feb 07 2018 - 14:10:26 EST


On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 08:06:51PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 11:01:29AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 02/07/2018 10:13 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > >>
> > >> That said, intel only _documents_ UD2 (0f 0b).
> > >
> > > Intel Order Number: 325383-064US, October 2017, documents UD0, UD1, and UD2.
> > > Section A.2.5, Table A-1, says:
> >
> > Ahh, I had an older version.
> >
> > Looking at the latest one I can find (325462-065US), it does specify
> > that it has a modrm byte:
> >
> > 0F FF /r UD0 1 r32, r/m32
> >
> > so I think that our opcode maps are wrong, and it's a bit dangerous to
> > put random constants right after the UD0.
> >
> > Maybe we should make our use of UD0 have a third byte: add a harmless
> > modrm byte before the warning constants?
> >
> > But yes, at least my objdump just thinks it's a bad 2-byte sequence,
> > and doesn't look at any modrm bytes at all.
>
> Look what my objdump does:
>
> $ objdump --version
> GNU objdump (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.29.90.20180122
>
> $ objdump -dr defconfig-build/kernel/sched/core.o | grep ud0
> 183a: 0f ff 65 48 ud0 0x48(%rbp),%esp
> 1881: 0f ff c3 ud0 %ebx,%eax
> 18b1: 0f ff 89 c0 48 0f a3 ud0 -0x5cf0b740(%rcx),%ecx
> 1940: 0f ff 89 c0 48 0f a3 ud0 -0x5cf0b740(%rcx),%ecx
> 19c2: 0f ff 89 c0 48 0f a3 ud0 -0x5cf0b740(%rcx),%ecx
>
> So yeah, we're screwed :-(
>
> Adding a harmless modr/m to our UD0 would grow the kernel image. ARGGH

PeterA, at the time there was talk of arranging a single byte UD
instruction. Any luck arranging that?