[llvm] [clang] [RISCV] Add Zicfiss support to the shadow call stack implementation. (PR #68075)

Yeting Kuo via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Sun Jan 7 23:55:58 PST 2024


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@@ -57,11 +57,14 @@ compiled application or the operating system. Integrating the runtime into
 the operating system should be preferred since otherwise all thread creation
 and destruction would need to be intercepted by the application.
 
-The instrumentation makes use of the platform register ``x18`` on AArch64 and
-``x3`` (``gp``) on RISC-V. For simplicity we will refer to this as the
-``SCSReg``. On some platforms, ``SCSReg`` is reserved, and on others, it is
-designated as a scratch register.  This generally means that any code that may
-run on the same thread as code compiled with ShadowCallStack must either target
+The instrumentation makes use of the platform register ``x18`` on AArch64,
+``x3`` (``gp``) on RISC-V with software shadow stack and ``ssp`` on RISC-V with
+hardware shadow stack, which needs `Zicfiss`_ and ``-mno-forced-sw-shadow-stack``
+(default option). ``-mforced-sw-shadow-stack`` make risc-v backend generate
+software shadow stack with `Zicfiss`_ when shadow stack enabled.
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yetingk wrote:

Done. Thank you for your suggestion.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/68075


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