gettimeofday seconds rollover problem?

Eric Norum norume at aps.anl.gov
Thu Feb 23 16:37:18 UTC 2006


Ack!
Looks like gcc really is getting aggressive.

Here's the code for a ColdFire MCF5282:

(gdb) disassem gettimeofday
Dump of assembler code for function gettimeofday:
0x00127d8c <gettimeofday+0>:    moveal %sp@(4),%a0
0x00127d90 <gettimeofday+4>:    tstl %a0
0x00127d92 <gettimeofday+6>:    beqs 0x127dca <gettimeofday+62>
0x00127d94 <gettimeofday+8>:    movel #1792,%d0
0x00127d9a <gettimeofday+14>:   movel %d0,%d1
0x00127d9c <gettimeofday+16>:   movew %sr,%d0
0x00127d9e <gettimeofday+18>:   orl %d0,%d1
0x00127da0 <gettimeofday+20>:   movew %d1,%sr
0x00127da2 <gettimeofday+22>:   movel 0x219f22 <_TOD_Current+24>,%d1
0x00127da8 <gettimeofday+28>:   movew %d0,%sr
0x00127daa <gettimeofday+30>:   movel 0x219e46  
<_TOD_Seconds_since_epoch>,%d0
0x00127db0 <gettimeofday+36>:   addil #567993600,%d0
0x00127db6 <gettimeofday+42>:   movel %d0,%a0@
0x00127db8 <gettimeofday+44>:   movel 0x219f72  
<_TOD_Microseconds_per_tick>,%d0
0x00127dbe <gettimeofday+50>:   mulsl %d1,%d0
0x00127dc2 <gettimeofday+54>:   movel %d0,%a0@(4)
0x00127dc6 <gettimeofday+58>:   clrl %d0
0x00127dc8 <gettimeofday+60>:   rts


As you can see, the 'ticks' value is read with interrupts disabled,  
but the 'seconds since epoch' is not.


norume at pyramidion 221> m68k-rtems4.7-gcc --version
m68k-rtems4.7-gcc (GCC) 4.0.2



I made the following change:
Index: cpukit/score/cpu/m68k/rtems/score/m68k.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr1/CVS/rtems/cpukit/score/cpu/m68k/rtems/score/m68k.h,v
retrieving revision 1.24
diff -u -r1.24 m68k.h
--- cpukit/score/cpu/m68k/rtems/score/m68k.h    7 Jun 2005 16:44:18  
-0000      1.24
+++ cpukit/score/cpu/m68k/rtems/score/m68k.h    23 Feb 2006 16:29:19  
-0000
@@ -280,17 +280,19 @@
          asm volatile ( "move.w %%sr,%0\n\t" \
                        "or.l   %0,%1\n\t" \
                        "move.w %1,%%sr" \
-                      : "=d" (_level), "=d"(_tmpsr) : "1"(_tmpsr) ); \
+                      : "=d" (_level), "=d"(_tmpsr) : "1"(_tmpsr) \
+               : "memory", "cc" ); \
     } while( 0 )
#else
#define m68k_disable_interrupts( _level ) \
    asm volatile ( "move.w  %%sr,%0\n\t" \
                   "or.w    #0x0700,%%sr" \
-                    : "=d" (_level))
+                    : "=d" (_level) \
+                    : : "memory", "cc" )
#endif
#define m68k_enable_interrupts( _level ) \
-  asm volatile ( "move.w  %0,%%sr " : : "d" (_level));
+  asm volatile ( "move.w  %0,%%sr " : : "d" (_level) : "memory", "cc");
#if ( M68K_COLDFIRE_ARCH == 1 )
#define m68k_flash_interrupts( _level ) \
@@ -298,13 +300,15 @@
         asm volatile ( "move.w %2,%%sr\n\t" \
                        "or.l   %2,%1\n\t" \
                        "move.w %1,%%sr" \
-                      : "=d"(_tmpsr) : "0"(_tmpsr), "d"(_level) ); \
+                      : "=d"(_tmpsr) : "0"(_tmpsr), "d"(_level) \
+               : "memory", "cc"); \
     } while( 0 )
#else
#define m68k_flash_interrupts( _level ) \
    asm volatile ( "move.w  %0,%%sr\n\t" \
                   "or.w    #0x0700,%%sr" \
-                    : : "d" (_level))
+                    : : "d" (_level) \
+                    : "memory", "cc" )
#endif
#define m68k_get_interrupt_level( _level ) \



Now the code looks good:

(gdb) disassem gettimeofday
Dump of assembler code for function gettimeofday:
0x00127d8c <gettimeofday+0>:    movel %d2,%sp at -
0x00127d8e <gettimeofday+2>:    moveal %sp@(8),%a0
0x00127d92 <gettimeofday+6>:    tstl %a0
0x00127d94 <gettimeofday+8>:    beqs 0x127dcc <gettimeofday+64>
0x00127d96 <gettimeofday+10>:   movel #1792,%d0
0x00127d9c <gettimeofday+16>:   movel %d0,%d1
0x00127d9e <gettimeofday+18>:   movew %sr,%d0
0x00127da0 <gettimeofday+20>:   orl %d0,%d1
0x00127da2 <gettimeofday+22>:   movew %d1,%sr
0x00127da4 <gettimeofday+24>:   movel 0x219e06  
<_TOD_Seconds_since_epoch>,%d1
0x00127daa <gettimeofday+30>:   movel 0x219ee2 <_TOD_Current+24>,%d2
0x00127db0 <gettimeofday+36>:   movew %d0,%sr
0x00127db2 <gettimeofday+38>:   addil #567993600,%d1
0x00127db8 <gettimeofday+44>:   movel %d1,%a0@
0x00127dba <gettimeofday+46>:   movel 0x219f32  
<_TOD_Microseconds_per_tick>,%d0
0x00127dc0 <gettimeofday+52>:   mulsl %d2,%d0
0x00127dc4 <gettimeofday+56>:   movel %d0,%a0@(4)
0x00127dc8 <gettimeofday+60>:   clrl %d0
0x00127dca <gettimeofday+62>:   bras 0x127ddc <gettimeofday+80>
0x00127dcc <gettimeofday+64>:   jsr 0x185270 <__errno>
0x00127dd2 <gettimeofday+70>:   moveal %d0,%a0
0x00127dd4 <gettimeofday+72>:   movel #14,%a0@
0x00127dda <gettimeofday+78>:   moveq #-1,%d0
0x00127ddc <gettimeofday+80>:   movel %sp at +,%d2
0x00127dde <gettimeofday+82>:   rts


-- 
Eric Norum <norume at aps.anl.gov>
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
(630) 252-4793





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