craig.topper added a comment.

In D99708#2664351 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99708#2664351>, @hjl.tools wrote:

> In D99708#2664218 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99708#2664218>, @craig.topper 
> wrote:
>
>> In D99708#2664164 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99708#2664164>, @hjl.tools 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In D99708#2664076 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99708#2664076>, @LuoYuanke 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In D99708#2663989 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D99708#2663989>, @craig.topper 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> A user interrupt is different than a regular interrupt right? It doesn't 
>>>>> make sense that we would change the behavior of the interrupt calling 
>>>>> convention just because the the user interrupt instructions are enabled. 
>>>>> That would occur just from passing a -march for a newer CPU wouldn't it?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe need support another attribute "__attribute__ ((user_interrupt))" 
>>>> for functions? However this is what gcc does 
>>>> (https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/8ojTMG6bT).
>>>
>>> Since there won't be both user interrupt handler and kernel interrupt 
>>> handler in the source, there is no need for another
>>> attribute.   We discussed that kernel might need to use UINTR instructions. 
>>>  We decided that kernel could use inline asm
>>> statements if needed.
>>
>> So if write kernel code and compile with -march=haswell today, I get IRET. 
>> If tomorrow I change my command line to -march=sapphirerapids, now my kernel 
>> interrupt code generates user interrupt instructions. That seems surprising.
>
> -mcmodel=kernel should disable uiret.:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99870

That makes sense. Can we put that in this patch?


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