Re: [PATCH] x86/math64: handle #DE in mul_u64_u64_div_u64()

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Jul 22 2025 - 13:59:55 EST


On 07/22, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> On July 22, 2025 3:50:35 AM PDT, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >The generic implementation doesn't WARN... OK, I won't argue.
> >How about
> >
> > static inline u64 mul_u64_u64_div_u64(u64 a, u64 mul, u64 div)
> > {
> > char ok = 0;
> > u64 q;
> >
> > asm ("mulq %3; 1: divq %4; movb $1,%1; 2:\n"
> > _ASM_EXTABLE(1b, 2b)
> > : "=a" (q), "+r" (ok)
> > : "a" (a), "rm" (mul), "rm" (div)
> > : "rdx");
> >
> > if (ok)
> > return q;
> > BUG_ON(!div);
> > WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> > return ~(u64)0;
> > }
> >
> >?
> >
> >Oleg.
>
> Maybe the generic version *should* warn?

David is going to change the generic version to WARN.

> As far as the ok output, the Right Way™ to do it is with an asm goto instead
> of a status variable; the second best tends to be to use the flags output.

This is what I was going to do initially. But this needs
CONFIG_CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT

Oleg.