[LLVMdev] nested function's static link gets clobbered

[Yale Zhang]

Fellow developers,

I'm parallelizing loops to be called by pthread. The thread body that I pass
to pthread_create looks like

define i8* @loop1({ i32*, i32* }* nest  %parent_frame, i8* %arg)
parent_frame is pointer to shared variables in original function

0x00007f0de11c41f0:     mov    (%r10),%rax
0x00007f0de11c41f3:     cmpl   $0x63,(%rax)
0x00007f0de11c41f6:     jg     0x7f0de11c420c
0x00007f0de11c41fc:     mov    0x8(%r10),%rax
0x00007f0de11c4200:     incl   (%rax)
0x00007f0de11c4202:     mov    (%r10),%rax
0x00007f0de11c4205:     incl   (%rax)
0x00007f0de11c4207:     jmpq   0x7f0de11c41f0
0x00007f0de11c420c:     xor    %rax,%rax
0x00007f0de11c420f:     retq

I use init_trampoline to generate code that sets up the static link:

0x00007fffee982316:     mov    $0x7f48e1a08fb0,%r11
0x00007fffee982320:     mov    $0x7fffee982330,%r10               the static
link
0x00007fffee98232a:     rex.WB jmpq   *%r11

The program crashes in loop1 on the 2nd instruction. r10, which contained
the static link was different from the value set by the trampoline.

Upon closer inspection, it looks like the trampoline first jumps to a stub
that compiles loop1:

0x00007f48e1a08fb0:     mov    $0x5c61c0,%r10
0x00007f48e1a08fba:     callq  *%r10
0x00007f48e1a08fbd:     int    $0x0

But that clobbers r10 which loop1 needs. According to the x86-64 ABI, r10
isn't preserved across functions, but here it needs to be. Is there anyway
to force LLVM to do that? I tried telling lli to compile the entire program
(-no-lazy) so that the stub won't be generated, but gives the error:

LLVM JIT requested to do lazy compilation of function
'_Z41__static_initialization_and_destruction_0ii' when lazy compiles are
disabled!

Any ideas?

Note, I had to compile lli with -z execstack in order for trampolines on the
stack to work.
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