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authorJustus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>2015-09-07 14:37:40 +0200
committerJustus Winter <4winter@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>2015-09-07 14:59:29 +0200
commit2b4c03cbc84090174a3cf5d27887bac8fb052b57 (patch)
tree5765297bc0b861b53526cbed3fb9d2257c456d90
parent48b94c74e9817781a1e7a4fdd03fa471953047fb (diff)
kern: fix loop reading the time value
Previously, recent versions of gcc would hoist the loads out of the loop reading the time value. * kern/macros.h (access_once): New macro. * kern/mach_clock.c (host_get_time): Use the new macro to prevent the loads from being hoisted out of the loop.
-rw-r--r--kern/mach_clock.c6
-rw-r--r--kern/macros.h2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kern/mach_clock.c b/kern/mach_clock.c
index 655adf40..2bcd2325 100644
--- a/kern/mach_clock.c
+++ b/kern/mach_clock.c
@@ -426,9 +426,9 @@ host_get_time(host, current_time)
return(KERN_INVALID_HOST);
do {
- current_time->seconds = mtime->seconds;
- current_time->microseconds = mtime->microseconds;
- } while (current_time->seconds != mtime->check_seconds);
+ current_time->seconds = access_once(mtime->seconds);
+ current_time->microseconds = access_once(mtime->microseconds);
+ } while (current_time->seconds != access_once(mtime->check_seconds));
return (KERN_SUCCESS);
}
diff --git a/kern/macros.h b/kern/macros.h
index 7cc579d1..c2e8545a 100644
--- a/kern/macros.h
+++ b/kern/macros.h
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
#define structof(ptr, type, member) \
((type *)((char *)(ptr) - offsetof(type, member)))
+#define access_once(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
+
#define alignof(x) __alignof__(x)
#ifndef likely