[PATCH] D56717: [SLH] AArch64: correctly pick temporary register to mask SP

[Kristof Beyls via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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Comment at: llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64SpeculationHardening.cpp:253
+  llvm_unreachable("The nature of call instructions and the ABI must result in "
+                   "finding at least one register above.");
+}
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zbrid wrote:
> Since I don't know much about the ABI or the assumptions around calls, I had some quick questions about this for clarification. Can you be sure that this is unreachable because the way the calling convention is specified means there will always be at least one dead register before a call? For example, since there are several call clobbered registers specified in the calling convention even if x17 is used as an address for an indirect branch instruction (and is therefore live across the call), there's no way for all of the call clobbered registers to be live since there are no call instructions that could force all of them to be live? 
Yes, indeed, the assumption is that the calling convention will result in at least one register being "killed" during the call. Or at least not being guaranteed to retain the same value.
The ABI actually specifies that x17 can never be live across a call, which is why this was picked initially. However, as can be seen in the new test cases in this patch, x17 could still be legally be used as containing the address an indirect call has to branch to - making the register still live just before the call.


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