powerpc/vdso: Don't use r30 to avoid breaking Go lang
The Go runtime uses r30 for some special value called 'g'. It assumes that value will remain unchanged even when calling VDSO functions. Although r30 is non-volatile across function calls, the callee is free to use it, as long as the callee saves the value and restores it before returning. It used to be true by accident that the VDSO didn't use r30, because the VDSO was hand-written asm. When we switched to building the VDSO from C the compiler started using r30, at least in some builds, leading to crashes in Go. eg: ~/go/src$ ./all.bash Building Go cmd/dist using /usr/lib/go-1.16. (go1.16.2 linux/ppc64le) Building Go toolchain1 using /usr/lib/go-1.16. go build os/exec: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault go build reflect: /usr/lib/go-1.16/pkg/tool/linux_ppc64le/compile: signal: segmentation fault go tool dist: FAILED: /usr/lib/go-1.16/bin/go install -gcflags=-l -tags=math_big_pure_go compiler_bootstrap bootstrap/cmd/...: exit status 1 There are patches in flight to fix Go[1], but until they are released and widely deployed we can workaround it in the VDSO by avoiding use of r30. Note this only works with GCC, clang does not support -ffixed-rN. 1: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/328110 Fixes: ab037dd8 ("powerpc/vdso: Switch VDSO to generic C implementation.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+ Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210729131244.2595519-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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