Mesa (master): llvmpipe: Avoid corrupting the FPU stack with MMX instructions on 32bit OSes.

Jose Fonseca jrfonseca at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu Jul 29 18:19:40 UTC 2010


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: e3d2ebac115f7b7899664fefc2652fb829acfa27
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=e3d2ebac115f7b7899664fefc2652fb829acfa27

Author: José Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com>
Date:   Thu Jul 22 18:37:46 2010 +0100

llvmpipe: Avoid corrupting the FPU stack with MMX instructions on 32bit OSes.

Unfortunately LLVM doesn't emit EMMS itself, and there is no
easy/effective way to disable MMX.

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3287

---

 src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_misc.cpp |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_state_fs.c    |    5 +++++
 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_misc.cpp b/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_misc.cpp
index 5a9488b..072408b 100644
--- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_misc.cpp
+++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/gallivm/lp_bld_misc.cpp
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <llvm/Target/TargetOptions.h>
 #include <llvm/ExecutionEngine/ExecutionEngine.h>
 #include <llvm/ExecutionEngine/JITEventListener.h>
+#include <llvm/Support/CommandLine.h>
 
 #include "pipe/p_config.h"
 #include "util/u_debug.h"
@@ -141,4 +142,27 @@ lp_set_target_options(void)
 #if 0
    llvm::UnsafeFPMath = true;
 #endif
+
+#if 0
+   /*
+    * LLVM will generate MMX instructions for vectors <= 64 bits, leading to
+    * innefficient code, and in 32bit systems, to the corruption of the FPU
+    * stack given that it expects the user to generate the EMMS instructions.
+    *
+    * See also:
+    * - http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=3287
+    * - http://l4.me.uk/post/2009/06/07/llvm-wrinkle-3-configuration-what-configuration/
+    *
+    * XXX: Unfortunately this is not working.
+    */
+   static boolean first = FALSE;
+   if (first) {
+      static const char* options[] = {
+         "prog",
+         "-disable-mmx"
+      };
+      llvm::cl::ParseCommandLineOptions(2, const_cast<char**>(options));
+      first = FALSE;
+   }
+#endif
 }
diff --git a/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_state_fs.c b/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_state_fs.c
index 5953d69..dbcc286 100644
--- a/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_state_fs.c
+++ b/src/gallium/drivers/llvmpipe/lp_state_fs.c
@@ -676,6 +676,11 @@ generate_fragment(struct llvmpipe_context *lp,
 		     color_ptr);
    }
 
+#ifdef PIPE_ARCH_X86
+   /* Avoid corrupting the FPU stack on 32bit OSes. */
+   lp_build_intrinsic(builder, "llvm.x86.mmx.emms", LLVMVoidType(), NULL, 0);
+#endif
+
    LLVMBuildRetVoid(builder);
 
    LLVMDisposeBuilder(builder);




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