accel/tcg: Add URL of clang bug to comment about our workaround

In cpu_exec() we have a longstanding workaround for compilers which
do not correctly implement the part of the sigsetjmp()/siglongjmp()
spec which requires that local variables which are not changed
between the setjmp and the longjmp retain their value.

I recently ran across the upstream clang bug report for this; add a
link to it to the comment describing the workaround, and generally
expand the comment, so that we have a reasonable chance in future of
understanding why it's there and determining when we can remove it,
assuming clang eventually fixes the bug.

Remove the /* buggy compiler */ comments on the #else and #endif:
they don't add anything to understanding and are somewhat misleading
since they're sandwiching the code path for *non*-buggy compilers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20210129130330.30820-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
index d9ef69121c..f2819eec7d 100644
--- a/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
+++ b/accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c
@@ -773,17 +773,30 @@ int cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
     /* prepare setjmp context for exception handling */
     if (sigsetjmp(cpu->jmp_env, 0) != 0) {
 #if defined(__clang__)
-        /* Some compilers wrongly smash all local variables after
-         * siglongjmp. There were bug reports for gcc 4.5.0 and clang.
+        /*
+         * Some compilers wrongly smash all local variables after
+         * siglongjmp (the spec requires that only non-volatile locals
+         * which are changed between the sigsetjmp and siglongjmp are
+         * permitted to be trashed). There were bug reports for gcc
+         * 4.5.0 and clang.  The bug is fixed in all versions of gcc
+         * that we support, but is still unfixed in clang:
+         *   https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21183
+         *
          * Reload essential local variables here for those compilers.
-         * Newer versions of gcc would complain about this code (-Wclobbered). */
+         * Newer versions of gcc would complain about this code (-Wclobbered),
+         * so we only perform the workaround for clang.
+         */
         cpu = current_cpu;
         cc = CPU_GET_CLASS(cpu);
-#else /* buggy compiler */
-        /* Assert that the compiler does not smash local variables. */
+#else
+        /*
+         * Non-buggy compilers preserve these locals; assert that
+         * they have the correct value.
+         */
         g_assert(cpu == current_cpu);
         g_assert(cc == CPU_GET_CLASS(cpu));
-#endif /* buggy compiler */
+#endif
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_SOFTMMU
         tcg_debug_assert(!have_mmap_lock());
 #endif