Currently, BPF has XADD (locked add) insn support and the
asm looks like:
lock *(u32 *)(r1 + 0) += r2
lock *(u64 *)(r1 + 0) += r2
The instruction itself does not have a return value.
At the source code level, users often use
__sync_fetch_and_add()
which eventually translates to XADD. The return value of
__sync_fetch_and_add() is supposed to be the old value
in the xadd memory location. Since BPF::XADD insn does not
support such a return value, this patch added a PreEmit
phase to check such a usage. If such an illegal usage
pattern is detected, a fatal error will be reported like
line 4: Invalid usage of the XADD return value
if compiled with -g, or
Invalid usage of the XADD return value
if compiled without -g.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
llvm-svn: 342692
Yonghong Song