Re: [PATCH] MdePkg/Include: AARCH64: disable outline atomics on GCC 10.2+

["Leif Lindholm" <leif@nuviainc.com>]

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:12:02 +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> GCC 10 enabled a feature by default that was introduced in GCC 9,
> which results in atomic operations to be emitted as function calls
> to intrinsics provided by a runtime library.
> 
> Atomics are hardly used in EDK2, which runs on a single CPU anyway,
> and any benefit that would result from reusing library code that
> implements these operations is defeated by the fact that every EDK2
> module will need to have its own copy anyway.
> 
> So let's disable this feature on GCC versions that support the
> pragma to do so (GCC 10.2 and up)
> 
> Link: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2723
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com>
>
> ---
> The GCC support for this pragma has already been pulled into the 10.2
> release branch. I think we should consider adding this to the stable
> tag, so that the issue can easily be resolved by upgrading the compiler.
> Whether we add the intrinsics too is a separate matter, but we can
> revisit that later.

Hmm. I am just slightly concerned over referencing GCC 10.2 before GCC
10.2 is released.
Presumably, there will be no ill effects if that pragma is enabled also
on 10.2, we just won't need it? If so ...

>  MdePkg/Include/AArch64/ProcessorBind.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/MdePkg/Include/AArch64/ProcessorBind.h b/MdePkg/Include/AArch64/ProcessorBind.h
> index 896bf273ac7a..a3ca8f09e51c 100644
> --- a/MdePkg/Include/AArch64/ProcessorBind.h
> +++ b/MdePkg/Include/AArch64/ProcessorBind.h
> @@ -24,6 +24,17 @@
>  #pragma pack()
>  #endif
>  
> +#if defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__clang__)
> +
> +//
> +// Disable GCC outline atomics
> +// Link: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2723
> +//
> +#if __GNUC__ > 10 || (__GNUC__ == 10 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 2)

Could we do >= 10 here for now, and update to this conditional once
we've verified that the change does really make it into 10.2?

If so, I support including it in the stable tag.

/
    Leif

> +#pragma GCC target "no-outline-atomics"
> +#endif
> +#endif
> +
>  #if defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS)
>  
>  //
> -- 
> 2.17.1
>