[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] Avoid checkng for NULL pointers multiple times
Kris Van Hees
kris.van.hees at oracle.com
Mon Dec 13 05:51:02 UTC 2021
The dt_cg_load_var() function included a check to see that a loaded
pointer value was not NULL (and to generate a probe error if it was).
However, callers of this function are already checking for NULL before
using the pointer (if such a check is necessary). Therefore, this
does not need to be done in dt_cg_load_var().
One case that was affected by this extra NULL-checking is pointer
arithmetic. An explicit dt_cg_check_notnull() call added to that to
ensure that the source pointer is not NULL.
The dt_cg_load_var() function was also creting two labels that were
only actually used in one branch. In addition, Eugene Loh pointed
out that a MOV instruction could be saved as well.
Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>
---
libdtrace/dt_cg.c | 19 +++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/libdtrace/dt_cg.c b/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
index 296fcd42..716d7bed 100644
--- a/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
+++ b/libdtrace/dt_cg.c
@@ -2066,8 +2066,6 @@ dt_cg_load_var(dt_node_t *dst, dt_irlist_t *dlp, dt_regset_t *drp)
/* thread-local variables */
if (idp->di_flags & DT_IDFLG_TLS) { /* TLS var */
uint_t varid = idp->di_id - DIF_VAR_OTHER_UBASE;
- uint_t lbl_notnull = dt_irlist_label(dlp);
- uint_t lbl_done = dt_irlist_label(dlp);
idp = dt_dlib_get_func(yypcb->pcb_hdl, "dt_get_tvar");
assert(idp != NULL);
@@ -2087,9 +2085,10 @@ dt_cg_load_var(dt_node_t *dst, dt_irlist_t *dlp, dt_regset_t *drp)
if (dst->dn_flags & DT_NF_REF) {
emit(dlp, BPF_MOV_REG(dst->dn_reg, BPF_REG_0));
dt_regset_free(drp, BPF_REG_0);
- dt_cg_check_notnull(dlp, drp, dst->dn_reg);
} else {
size_t size = dt_node_type_size(dst);
+ uint_t lbl_notnull = dt_irlist_label(dlp);
+ uint_t lbl_done = dt_irlist_label(dlp);
assert(size > 0 && size <= 8 &&
(size & (size - 1)) == 0);
@@ -2098,11 +2097,9 @@ dt_cg_load_var(dt_node_t *dst, dt_irlist_t *dlp, dt_regset_t *drp)
emit(dlp, BPF_MOV_IMM(dst->dn_reg, 0));
emit(dlp, BPF_JUMP(lbl_done));
emitl(dlp, lbl_notnull,
- BPF_MOV_REG(dst->dn_reg, BPF_REG_0));
+ BPF_LOAD(ldstw[size], dst->dn_reg, BPF_REG_0, 0));
dt_regset_free(drp, BPF_REG_0);
- emit(dlp, BPF_LOAD(ldstw[size], dst->dn_reg, dst->dn_reg, 0));
-
emitl(dlp, lbl_done,
BPF_NOP());
}
@@ -2569,8 +2566,14 @@ dt_cg_arithmetic_op(dt_node_t *dnp, dt_irlist_t *dlp, dt_regset_t *drp,
dt_cg_ptrsize(dnp, dlp, drp, BPF_MUL, dnp->dn_left->dn_reg);
dt_cg_node(dnp->dn_right, dlp, drp);
- if (is_ptr_op && lp_is_ptr)
- dt_cg_ptrsize(dnp, dlp, drp, BPF_MUL, dnp->dn_right->dn_reg);
+ if (is_ptr_op) {
+ if (lp_is_ptr) {
+ dt_cg_ptrsize(dnp, dlp, drp, BPF_MUL,
+ dnp->dn_right->dn_reg);
+ dt_cg_check_notnull(dlp, drp, dnp->dn_left->dn_reg);
+ } else
+ dt_cg_check_notnull(dlp, drp, dnp->dn_right->dn_reg);
+ }
if ((op == BPF_MOD || op == BPF_DIV) &&
(dnp->dn_flags & DT_NF_SIGNED)) {
--
2.34.1
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