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-rw-r--r--accel/tcg/cpu-exec.c25
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